Hall / Unknown / Draper Emancipation and the remaking of the British Imperial world

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0301-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Neale UCL Studies in British History

Explores the significance of the slavery business and emancipation in the formation of modern imperial Britain

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Hall, Catherine

Draper, Nicholas

McClelland, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper and Keith McClelland
Part I: Formations of capital: beyond ‘merchants and planters’
1. The scope of accumulation and the reach of moral perception: slavery, market revolution and Atlantic capitalism – Robin Blackburn
2. Slavery, the slave trade and economic growth: a contribution to the debate – Pat Hudson
3. Slavery and Welsh industry before and after emancipation – Chris Evans
Part II: From slavery to indenture
4. From slavery to indenture: scripts for slavery’s endings – Anita Rupprecht
5. Re-examining the labour matrix in the British Caribbean, 1750–1850 – Heather Cateau
6. After emancipation: empires and imperial formations – Clare Anderson
Part III: The imperial state
7. Imperial complicity: indigenous dispossession in British history and history writing – Zoë Laidlaw
8. Concepts of liberty: freedom, laissez faire and the state after Britain’s abolition of slavery – Richard Huzzey
Part IV: Public histories, family histories
9. Family history: history’s poor relation? – Alison Light
10. Writing Sugar in the Blood – Andrea Stuart
11. Legacy and lineage: family histories in the Caribbean – Mary Chamberlain
Part V: Reparations, restitution and the historian
12. The Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission: ‘eyewash’, ‘storm in a teacup’ or promise of a new future for Mauritians? – Vijaya Teelock
13. Jamaica and the debate over reparation for slavery: an overview – Verene A. Shepherd
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hall Catherine:
Catherine Hall is Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College LondonDraper Nicholas:
Keith McClelland is a Research Associate on the Legacies of British slave-ownership project, Department of History, University College LondonMcClelland Keith:
Nicholas Draper is a Research Associate in the Department of History, University College LondonCatherine Hall is Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London

Nicholas Draper and Keith McClelland are Research Associates in the Department of History, University College London