Through the prism of slavery
Subtitle: labor, capital, and world economy
By: Dale W. Tomich
Series: World social change
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Slave labor -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 19th century; Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 19th century; Sugarcane industry -- Caribbean Area -- History; Slave labor -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: World market and American slavery: problems of historical method; title: World of capital, worlds of labor: reworking class in global perspective; title: The "second slavery": bonded labor and the transformation of the nineteenth century world economy; title: World slavery and Caribbean capitalism: the Cuban sugar industry, 1760-1868; title: Spaces of slavery: times of freedom: rethinking Caribbean history in world perspective; title: Small islands & huge comparisons: Caribbean plantations, historical unevenness, & capitalist modernity; title: White days, black days: the working day and the crisis of slavery in the French Caribbean; title: Une petite guine: provision ground and plantation in Martinique, 1830-1870; title: Contested terrains: houses, provision grounds, and the reconstitution of labor in post-emancipation Martinique