Atlantic transformations : empire, politics, and slavery during the nineteenth century / edited by Dale W. Tomich.
"This book presents a new approach to nineteenth-century Atlantic history by extending the analytical perspective of the second slavery to questions of empire, colonialism, and slavery. With a focus on Latin America, Brazil, the Spanish Caribbean, and the United States, international scholars e...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Fernand Braudel Center studies in historical social science.
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| Summary: | "This book presents a new approach to nineteenth-century Atlantic history by extending the analytical perspective of the second slavery to questions of empire, colonialism, and slavery. With a focus on Latin America, Brazil, the Spanish Caribbean, and the United States, international scholars examine relations among empires, between empires and colonies, and within colonies as parts of processes of global economic and political restructuring. By treating metropolis-colony relations within the framework of the modern world-economy, the contributors call attention to the political, economic, and cultural interdependence and interaction of global and local forces shaping the Atlantic world. They reinterpret as specific local responses to global processes the conflicts between empires, within imperial relations, the formation of national states, the creation of new zones of agricultural production and the decline of old ones, and the emergence of liberal ideologies and institutions"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 240 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781438477862 1438477864 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 14, 2020) |