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Specters of the Atlantic : finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history / Ian Baucom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baucom, Ian, 1967-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zong (Ship).
- Slave trade--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Slave trade.
- Slave trade--Africa--History--18th century.
- Slave trade--America--History--18th century.
- Antislavery movements--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Abolitionists--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Abolitionists.
- Trials--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Trials.
- Capitalism--Social aspects--History--18th century.
- Capitalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (399 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Cultural and literary study of the 1781 massacre on the slaveship Zong for the insurance money and the aftereffects of the event on the development of modernity.
- Contents:
- "Now being" : slavery, speculation, and the measure of our time
- Liverpool, a capital of the long twentieth century
- "Subject $" : or, the "type" of the modern
- "Madam death! madam death!" : credit, insurance, and the Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation
- "Signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognostikon" : modernity and the truth event
- "Please decide" : the singular and the speculative
- Specters of the Atlantic : slavery and the witness
- Frontispiece : testimony, rights, and the state of exception
- The view from the window : sympathy, melancholy, and the problem of "humanity"
- The fact of history : on cosmopolitan interestedness
- The imaginary resentment of the dead : a theory of melancholy sentiment
- "To tumble into it, and gasp for breath as we go down" : the idea of suffering
- And the case of liberal cosmopolitanism
- This/such, for instance : the witness against "history"
- "The sea is history"
- "The sea is history" : on temporal accumulation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [336]-376) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613021953
- 9781283021951
- 1283021951
- 9780822387022
- 0822387026
- OCLC:
- 654207553
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