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The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation And Human Rights - LIKE NEW
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
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- ISBN
- 9781781681060
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1781681066
ISBN-13
9781781681060
eBay Product ID (ePID)
143806181
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Crucible : Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Slavery, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Europe / General, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Publication Year
2013
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
25.6 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
'Robin Blackburn has already secured his position as Britain's pre-eminent historian of slavery. This new volume confirms that position. It is an important contribution to our understanding of the shaping of the modern western world.' James Walvin, BBC History Magazine 'Blackburn describes emancipation in all its vexed, indeterminate grandeur, propelled by violent clashes, public debate, harrowing exposs, and the consolidation of new notions of freedom and equality.' Greg Grandin, Guardian 'Blackburn writes authoritatively across centuries and continents.' Joseph P. Reidy, Journal of American History 'Poses a challenge for the political future as well as a bold reappraisal of the historical past.' Stephen Howe, Independent 'A marvellous book - insightful and stimulating.' Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester 'A magisterial history of transatlantic slavery.' Ian Thomson, TLS
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
306.3/62097
Synopsis
The American Crucible furnishes a vivid and authoritative history of the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas. For over three centuries enslavement promoted the rise of capitalism in the Atlantic world. The New World became the crucible for a succession of fateful experiments in colonization, silver mining, plantation agriculture, racial enslavement, colonial rebellion, slave witness and slave resistance. Slave produce raised up empires, fostered new cultures of consumption and financed the breakthrough to an industrial order. Not until the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the 1780s was there the first public challenge to the 'peculiar institution'. An anti-slavery alliance then set the scene for great acts of emancipation in Haiti in 1804, Britain in 1833-8, the United States in the 1860s, and Cuba and Brazil in the 1880s. In The American Crucible, Robin Blackburn argues that the anti-slavery movement forged many of the ideals we live by today. 'The best treatment of slavery in the western hemisphere I know of. I think it should establish itself as a permanent pillar of the literature.' Eric Hobsbawm, For over three centuries, slavery in the Americas fuelled the growth of capitalism. But the stirrings of a revolutionary age in the late eighteenth century challenged this .peculiar institution. and set the scene for great acts of emancipation in Haiti in 1804, in the United States in the 1860s and Brazil in the 1880s. Blackburn argues that the anti-slavery movement helped forge the political and social ideals we live by today.
LC Classification Number
E441
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