Specters of the Atlantic
Subtitle: finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history
By: Ian Baucom.
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
Subjects: Zong (Ship); Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 18th century; Slave trade -- America -- History -- 18th century; Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Abolitionists -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Trials -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Capitalism -- Social aspects -- History -- 18th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Now being" : slavery, speculation, and the measure of our time; title: Liverpool, a capital of the long twentieth century; title: "Subject $" : or, the "type" of the modern; title: "Madam death! madam death!" : credit, insurance, and the Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation; title: "Signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognostikon" : modernity and the truth event; title: "Please decide" : the singular and the speculative; title: Specters of the Atlantic : slavery and the witness; title: Frontispiece : testimony, rights, and the state of exception; title: The view from the window : sympathy, melancholy, and the problem of "humanity"; title: The fact of history : on cosmopolitan interestedness; title: The imaginary resentment of the dead : a theory of melancholy sentiment; title: "To tumble into it, and gasp for breath as we go down" : the idea of suffering; title: And the case of liberal cosmopolitanism; title: This/such, for instance : the witness against "history"; title: "The sea is history"; title: "The sea is history" : on temporal accumulation.