The Plantation Machine : : Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica /

The Plantation Machine : : Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica / / John Garrigus, Trevor Burnard.

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...

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Burnard, Trevor,
Garrigus, John,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:The Early Modern Americas
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 14 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Map
  • 1. A Comparative History of Jamaica and Saint-Domingue
  • 2. The Plantation World
  • 3. Urban Life
  • 4. The Seven Years' War in the West Indies
  • 5. Dangerous Internal Enemies
  • 6. Racial Reconfigurations Before the American Revolution
  • 7. The Golden Age of the Plantocracy
  • 8. The American Revolution in the Greater Antilles
  • 9. Recovery and Consolidation in the 1780s
  • 10. The Ancien Régime in the Greater Antilles
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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