Caroline Oudin-Bastide, Philippe Steiner, Keith Tribe

Calculation and Morality

The Costs of Slavery and the Value of Emancipation in the French Antilles

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Produktbeschreibung

This book studies how, from the last third of the 18th century to 1848, comparative costs of slave and free labor played a key role in the French debate over the abolition of slavery. The book thus offers an original view upon the connection between economic calculation and morality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 530g
• ISBN-13: 9780190856854
• ISBN-10: 0190856858
• Artikelnr.: 54796852

Autorenporträt

Caroline Oudin-Bastide is a socio-historian of slavery in the French West Indies. Her research is focused on the social functioning of slave society and the role of social beliefs concerning witchcraft. Philippe Steiner is professor of sociology at the university Paris-Sorbonne. His recent research is devoted to the economic sociology of markets, the relation between markets and morals and the history of social sciences. He is currently working on the economic sociology of festivities.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Chapter 1. Du Pont: or, the Economic Error of Slavery, as
Demonstrated by Calculation
* Chapter 2. The Proliferating Use of Calculation among
Eighteenth-century Abolitionists
* Chapter 3. Colonists also Calculate
* Chapter 4. Moving Away from the Rhetoric of Calculation
* Chapter 5. The Institutional Inscription of Calculation
* Chapter 6. Another Form of Calculation: Productivity
* Chapter 7. Self-interest and Needs
* Chapter 8. Status and Interest
* Chapter 9. Justice and Utility
* Conclusion. Freeing the Slaves
* References
* Index of names