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Capitalism and Slavery

Af: Eric Williams Engelsk Paperback

Capitalism and Slavery

Af: Eric Williams Engelsk Paperback
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''It''s often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without it'' Sathnam Sanghera

Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain''s economic progress, Eric Williams''s landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism, and has influenced generations of historians ever since.


Williams traces the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to show how it laid the foundations of the Industrial Revolution, and how racism arose as a means of rationalising an economic decision. Most significantly, he showed how slavery was only abolished when it ceased to become financially viable, exploding the myth of emancipation as a mark of Britain''s moral progress.

''Its thesis is a starting point for a new generation of scholarship'' New Yorker

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''It''s often said that books are compulsory reading, but this book really is compulsory. You cannot understand slavery, or British Empire, without it'' Sathnam Sanghera

Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain''s economic progress, Eric Williams''s landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism and racism, and has influenced generations of historians ever since.


Williams traces the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave trade through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to show how it laid the foundations of the Industrial Revolution, and how racism arose as a means of rationalising an economic decision. Most significantly, he showed how slavery was only abolished when it ceased to become financially viable, exploding the myth of emancipation as a mark of Britain''s moral progress.

''Its thesis is a starting point for a new generation of scholarship'' New Yorker

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 304
ISBN-13: 9780241548165
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 0241548160
Kategori: Storbritannien
Udg. Dato: 24 feb 2022
Længde: 27mm
Bredde: 196mm
Højde: 129mm
Forlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato: 24 feb 2022
Forfatter(e): Eric Williams
Forfatter(e) Eric Williams


Kategori Storbritannien


ISBN-13 9780241548165


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 304


Udgave


Længde 27mm


Bredde 196mm


Højde 129mm


Udg. Dato 24 feb 2022


Oplagsdato 24 feb 2022


Forlag Penguin Books Ltd