Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment : : The Political Economy of the Caribbean World / / Arthur L. Stinchcombe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Stinchcombe, Arthur L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1995]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 7 tables, 5 maps

Plantations, especially sugar plantations, created slave societies and a racism persisting well into post-slavery periods: so runs a familiar argument that has been used to explain the sweep of Caribbean history. Here one of the most eminent scholars of modern social theory applies this assertion to...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Maps
• Tables
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• PART I: LATE 18TH CENTURY IMPERIALISMAND SLAVE SOCIETIES IN THE CARIBBEAN
• 2. Island Geography: How Tiny Islands Can Be Economic, Social, and Political Systems
• 3. Free Labor and Finance Capital on the Seas
• 4. The Economic Demography of Plantation Islands
• 5. Planter Power, Freedom, and Oppression of Slaves in the 18th Century Caribbean
• 6. Race as a Social Boundary: Free Colored versus Slaves and Blacks
• PART II: PATHS TO EMANCIPATION IN THE 19TH CENTURY
• 7. The Politics of Empires, European Democratization, Emancipation, and Freedom
• 8. French Revolutions and the Transformation of the French Empire
• 9. The French Revolution in Haiti and Haitian Isolation in the 19th Century World System
• 10. Establishing Monopolies in Free Labor Markets: Semi-Servile Labor in the British Islands
• 11. Spanish Colonies: Caudillismo, a Split Cuba, and U.S. Intervention
• 12. Conclusion: The Sociology of Freedom
• Bibliography
• Index