The plantation machine : Atlantic capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica / Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus.
- Burnard, Trevor, 1960-
- Date:
- [2016]
- Books
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Description
Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. 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.
Publication/Creation
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Physical description
350 pages : black and white illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Series
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineJQC.71.AA7Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780812248296
- 0812248295