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British capitalism and Caribbean slavery : the legacy of Eric Williams / [edited by] Barbara L. Solow, Stanley L. Engerman.

Other author/creatorSolow, Barbara L. (Barbara Lewis)
Other author/creatorEngerman, Stanley L.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoCambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Descriptionx, 345 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Supplemental Content Table of contents
Supplemental Content Publisher description
Subject(s)
Williams, Eric Eustace, 1911-1981--Congresses.
Slave trade--West Indies, British --History --Congresses.
Slave trade--Great Britain --History --Congresses.
Great Britain--Economic conditions --1760-1860 --Congresses.
Caribbean Area--History.
Series Studies in interdisciplinary history
Studies in interdisciplinary history. ^A233758
Partial contents British capitalism and Caribbean slavery : the legacy of Eric Williams : an introduction / Barbara L. Solow and Stanley L. Engerman -- Race and slavery : considerations on the Williams thesis / William A. Green -- Capitalism and slavery in the exceedingly long run / Barbara L. Solow -- Slavery and the development of industrial capitalism in England / Joseph E. Inikori -- The slave trade, sugar, and British economic growth, 1748-1776 / David Richardson -- The American Revolution and the British West Indies' economy / Selwyn H.H. Carrington -- "Dreadful idlers" in the cane fields : the slave labor pattern on a Jamaican sugar estate, 1762-1831 / Richard S. Dunn -- Paradigms tossed : capitalism and the political sources of abolition / Seymour Drescher.
Partial contents Capitalism, abolitionism, and hegemony / David Brion Davis -- Eric Williams and abolition : the birth of a new orthodoxy / Howard Temperley -- What and who to whom and what : the significance of slave resistance / Michael Craton -- Capitalism and slavery on the Islands : a lesson from the mainland / Gavin Wright -- "The Williams effect" : Eric Williams's Capitalism and slavery and the growth of West Indian political economy / Hilary McD. Beckles -- Eric Williams and Capitalism and slavery : a biographical and historiographical essay / Richard B. Sheridan.
General notePapers originally presented at the Rockefeller Study and Conference Center at Bellagio, Italy, May 21-25, 1984.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
Genre/formConference proceedings.
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 86031771
ISBN0521334780
ISBN9780521334785

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