Daniel B Rood

The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery

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

• Broschiertes Buch

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780197528426
• ISBN-10: 0197528422
• Artikelnr.: 58602876

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* 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: Entangled Technologies: Richmond and the Transformation of
American Flour Milling
* Ch. 7: An International Harvest: The Development of the McCormick
Reaper
* Epilogue: Futures of Racial Capitalism
* Notes
* Index