Daniel B. Rood (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor of History

Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery

Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean

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Produktbeschreibung

The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery explores how, in an age of industry and abolition, ambitious planters in the Upper US South, Cuba, and Brazil expanded slavery by collaborating with a transnational group of chemists, engineers, and other "plantation experts" to assist them in adapting the technologies of the Industrial Revolution to suit "tropical" needs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780190655266
• ISBN-10: 0190655267
• Artikelnr.: 47868894

Autorenporträt

Daniel B. Rood is assistant professor of history at the University of Georgia. He is the coeditor of Global Scientific Practice in the Age of Revolutions, 1750-1850.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction - Atlantic Inversions
* Ch. 1 - A Creole Industrial Revolution in the Cuban Sugar-Mill
* Ch. 2 - "El Principio Sacarino": Purity, Equilibrium, and Whiteness
in the Sugar-Mill
* Ch. 3 - From an Infrastructure of Fees to an Infrastructure of Flows:
The Warehouse Revolution in Havana Harbor
* Ch. 4 - Wrought-Iron Politics: Racial Knowledge in the Making of a
Greater Caribbean Railroad Industry
* Ch. 5 - Sweetness and Debasement: Flour and Coffee in the
Richmond-Rio Circuit
* Ch. 6 - A Tropics of Bread: Entangled Technologies and the Greater
Caribbean Origins of the US Flour Industry
* Ch. 7 - An International Harvest: The Development of the McCormick
Reaper
* Epilogue
* Notes
* Index