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Building the Atlantic empires, unfree labor and imperial states in the political economy of capitalism, ca. 1500-1914, [edited] by John Donoghue, Evelyn P. Jennings

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Building the Atlantic empires, unfree labor and imperial states in the political economy of capitalism, ca. 1500-1914, [edited] by John Donoghue, Evelyn P. Jennings
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-206) and index
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Building the Atlantic empires
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
935451363
Responsibility statement
[edited] by John Donoghue, Evelyn P. Jennings
Series statement
Studies in global social history, volume 20
Sub title
unfree labor and imperial states in the political economy of capitalism, ca. 1500-1914
Summary
"'Building the Atlantic Empires' explores the relationship between state recruitment of unfree labor and capitalist and imperial development. In contrast to much imperial and labor history, this collection of essays shows Western European states as an agent of capitalist expansion. Extending the prolific literature on racial slavery, these essays help transcend imperial, colonial, geographic, and historiographic boundaries through comparative insights into multiple forms and ideologies of unfree labor as they evolved over the course of four centuries in the Dutch, French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese empires. The book raises new questions for scholars seeking connections between the history of servitude and slavery and the ways in which capitalism and imperialism transformed the Atlantic world and beyond. Contributors are: Pepijn Brandon, Rafael Chambouleyron, James Coltrain, John Donoghue, Karwan Fatah-Black, Elizabeth Heath, Evelyn P. Jennings, and Anna Suranyi."--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
The sinews of Spain's American empire : forced labor in Cuba from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries / Evelyn F. Jennings -- Indian freedom and Indian slavery in the Portuguese Amazon (1640-1755) / Rafael Chambouleyron -- Constructing the Atlantic's boundaries : forced and coerced labor on imperial fortifications in colonial Florida / James Coltrain -- For the reputation and respectability of the staten : trade, the imperial state, unfree labor, and empire in the Dutch Atlantic / Pepijn Brandon and Karwan Fatah-Black -- The unfree origins of English empire-building in the seventeenth century Atlantic / John Donoghue -- Indenture, transportation, and spiriting : seventeenth century English penal policy and "superfluous" populations / Anna Suranyi -- Citizens of the empire? : indentured labor, global capitalism and the limits of French republicanism in colonial Guadeloupe / Elizabeth Heath
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