The Making of New World Slavery - From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 (Paperback, 2nd edition)

The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought successfully to feed upon this commerce and with markedly less success to regulate slavery and racial relations. To illustrate this thesis, Blackburn examines the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Plantation slavery is shown to have emerged from the impulses of civil society, not from the strategies of individual states. Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally, he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, predicated on the murderous toil of the plantations, made a decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West. The Verso World History Series This series provides attractive new editions of classic works of history, making landmark texts available to a new generation of readers. Covering a timespan stretching from Ancient Greece and Rome to the twentieth century, and with a global geographical range, the series will also include thematic volumes providing insights into such topics as the spread of print cultures and the history of money.

General

Imprint:	Verso Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Verso World History
Release date:	July 2010
First published:	August 2010
Authors:	Robin Blackburn
Dimensions:	236 x 155 x 46mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	608
Edition:	2nd edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-84467-631-6
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Slavery & emancipation Books > History > World history > General
LSN:	1-84467-631-5
Barcode:	9781844676316

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