Catherine Hall, Keith Mcclelland, Nick Draper

Legacies of British Slave-Ownership

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Produktbeschreibung

This book puts the legacies of slavery squarely back into modern British history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 643g
• ISBN-13: 9781107040052
• ISBN-10: 1107040051
• Artikelnr.: 41079083

Autorenporträt

Catherine Hall is Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Possessing people: absentee slave-owners within British society
3. Helping make Britain great: the commercial legacies of slave-ownership in Britain
4. Redefining the West India interest: politics and the legacies of slave-ownership
5. Reconfiguring race: the stories the slave-owners told
6. Transforming capital: slavery, family, commerce and the making of the Hibbert family
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Making history in a prosopography
Appendix 2. Glossary of claimant categories
Appendix 3. A note on the database
Bibliography.