J R Oldfield

Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Age of Revolution

An International History of Anti-Slavery, C.1787-1820

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An in-depth, comparative study of transatlantic abolitionism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781107030763
• ISBN-10: 1107030765
• Artikelnr.: 37801079

Autorenporträt

John Oldfield is Wilberforce Professor of Slavery and Emancipation and Director of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) at the University of Hull. He has written extensively on slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world and published numerous articles and books in this area. He was formerly Professor of Modern History at the University of Southampton and Director of the Southampton Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies (2008-10). His research interests include the American South, maritime history and racialised relations in the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Building an Anti-Slavery Wall: 1. Networks
2. Circuits of knowledge
3. Strategies
Part II. Abolitionism in a Cold Climate: 4. Rupture and fragmentation
5. Retrenchment
Part III. A New Era: 6. Abolition
7. The revival of internationalism
8. Colonisation debates.