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.

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

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JQC.71.AA7
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780812248296
  • 0812248295