Emancipation and the remaking of the British imperial world. ([2015?])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper & Keith McClelland.
• Editors: McClelland, Keith; Draper, Nicholas, 1958-; Hall, Catherine, 1946-
• Contents: Preface -- Introduction / Catherine Hall, Nicholas Draper and Keith McClelland -- part I. Formations of capital : beyond 'merchants and planters' -- 1. The scope of accumulation and the reach of moral perception : slavery, market revolution and Atlantic capitalism / Robin Blackburn -- 2. Slavery, the slave trade and economic growth : a contribution to the debate / Pat Hudson -- 3. Slavery and Welsh industry before and after emancipation / Chris Evans -- part II. From slavery to indenture -- 4. From slavery to indenture : scripts for slavery's endings / Anita Rupprecht -- 5. Re-examining the labour matrix in the British Caribbean 1750 to 1850 / Heather Cateau -- 6. After emancipation : empires and imperial formations / Clare Anderson -- part III. The imperial state -- 7. Imperial complicity : indigenous dispossession in British history and history writing / Zoë Laidlaw -- 8. Concepts of liberty : freedom, laissez-faire and the state after Britain's abolition of slavery / Richard Huzzey -- part IV. Public histories, family histories -- 9. Family history : history's poor relation? / Alison Light -- 10. Writing Sugar in the blood / Andrea Stuart -- 11. Legacy and lineage : family histories in the Caribbean / Mary Chamberlain -- part V. Reparations, restitution and the historian -- 12. The Mauritius Truth and Justice Commission : 'eyewash', 'storm in a teacup' or promise of a new future for Mauritians? / Vijayalakshmi Teelock -- 13. Jamaica and the debate over reparation for slavery : an overview / Verene A. Shepherd.
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 306.3620941; Slavery -- West Indies, British -- History -- Congresses; Slaveholders -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses; Slaves -- Emancipation -- West Indies, British -- History -- Congresses; Slaves -- Emancipation -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses; Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain -- Congresses; Slavery -- Colonies -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses; Slaveholders; Slavery; Slavery -- Colonies; Slavery -- Economic aspects; Slaves -- Emancipation; Great Britain; West Indies -- British West Indies; Electronic books; Conference papers and proceedings; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526103017
• Related ISBNs: 152610301X; 9780719091834
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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