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The plantation machine : Atlantic capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica / Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HD 1329 .C27 B87 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burnard, Trevor, 1960- author.
- Garrigus, John D., author.
- Series:
- Early modern Americas
- The early modern Americas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plantations--Haiti--History.
- Plantations.
- Plantations--Jamaica--History.
- Haiti--History--To 1791.
- Haiti.
- Jamaica--History--To 1962.
- Jamaica.
- Haiti--Economic conditions.
- Jamaica--Economic conditions.
- Haiti--Social conditions.
- Jamaica--Social conditions.
- Enslavement--history.
- Enslaved Persons--history.
- Economic history.
- Social conditions.
- Medical Subjects:
- Enslavement--history.
- Enslaved Persons--history.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. These plantation regimes were, to adopt a metaphor of the era, complex "machines," finely tuned over time by planters, merchants, and officials to become more efficient at exploiting their enslaved workers and serving their empires. Using a wide range of archival evidence, The Plantation Machine traces a critical half-century in the development of the social, economic, and political frameworks that made these societies possible. Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus find deep and unexpected similarities in these two prize colonies of empires that fought each other throughout the period.
- Contents:
- A comparative history of Jamaica and Saint-Domingue
- The plantation world
- Urban life
- The Seven Years' War in the West Indies
- Dangerous internal enemies
- Racial reconfigurations before the American Revolution
- The golden age of the plantocracy
- The American Revolution in the Greater Antilles
- Recovery and consolidation in the 1780s
- The Ancien Régime in the Greater Antilles.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-334) and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complementary Collection.
- Other Format:
- Ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9780812248296
- 0812248295
- 9780812224238
- 081222423X
- 9780812293012
- 0812293010
- OCLC:
- 927401402
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