The plantation machine : Atlantic capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica
Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. Using a wide range of archival evidence, The Plantation Machine traces a critical half-century in the development of the social, economic, and political frameworks...
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Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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Series: | Early modern Americas.
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Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. Using a wide range of archival evidence, The Plantation Machine traces a critical half-century in the development of the social, economic, and political frameworks that made these societies possible. |
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350 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780812248296 0812248295 |