Building the Atlantic empires : : unfree labor and imperial states in the political economy of capitalism, ca. 1500-1914 /

Building the Atlantic empires : : unfree labor and imperial states in the political economy of capitalism, ca. 1500-1914 / / by John Donoghue, Evelyn P. Jennings ; contributors Pepijn Brandon [and seven others].

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Building the Atlantic Empires explores the relationship between state recruitment of unfree labor and capitalist and imperial development. Contributors show Western European states as agents of capitalist expansion, imposing diverse forms of bondage on workers for infrastructural, plantation, and mi...

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Superior document:Studies in Global Social History, Volume 20
VerfasserIn:
Donoghue, John,
Jennings, Evelyn P.,
TeilnehmendeR:
Jennings, Evelyn P.,
Brandon, Pepijn,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Studies in global social history ; Volume 20.
Physical Description:1 online resource (229 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material / John Donoghue and Evelyn P. Jennings
  • Introduction / John Donoghue and Evelyn P. Jennings
  • The Sinews of Spain’s American Empire: Forced Labor in Cuba from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries / Evelyn P. Jennings
  • Indian Freedom and Indian Slavery in the Portuguese Amazon (1640–1755) / Rafael Chambouleyron
  • Constructing the Atlantic’s Boundaries: Forced and Coerced Labor on Imperial Fortifications in Colonial Florida / James Coltrain
  • “For the Reputation and Respectability of the State”: Trade, the Imperial State, Unfree Labor, and Empire in the Dutch Atlantic / Pepijn Brandon and Karwan Fatah-Black
  • The Unfree Origins of English Empire-Building in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic / John Donoghue
  • Indenture, Transportation, and Spiriting: Seventeenth Century English Penal Policy and ‘Superfluous’ Populations / Anna Suranyi
  • Citizens of the Empire? Indentured Labor, Global Capitalism and the Limits of French Republicanism in Colonial Guadeloupe / Elizabeth Heath
  • Conclusion / John Donoghue and Evelyn P. Jennings
  • Selected Bibliography / John Donoghue and Evelyn P. Jennings
  • Index / John Donoghue and Evelyn P. Jennings.

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