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Cul de Sac

- Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue
Af: Paul Cheney Engelsk Hardback

Cul de Sac

- Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue
Af: Paul Cheney Engelsk Hardback
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In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkable archival finds to show that despite the wealth such plantations produced, they operated in a context of social, political, and environmental fragility that left them weak and crisis prone. Focusing on correspondence between the Ferronnayses and their plantation managers, Cul de Sac proposes that the Caribbean plantation system, with its reliance on factory-like production processes and highly integrated markets, was a particularly modern expression of eighteenth-century capitalism. But it rested on a foundation of economic and political traditionalism that stymied growth and adaptation. The result was a system heading toward collapse as planters, facing a series of larger crises in the French empire, vainly attempted to rein in the inherent violence and instability of the slave society they had built. In recovering the lost world of the French Antillean plantation, Cul de Sac ultimately reveals how the capitalism of the plantation complex persisted not as a dynamic source of progress, but from the inertia of a degenerate system headed down an economic and ideological dead end.
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In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkable archival finds to show that despite the wealth such plantations produced, they operated in a context of social, political, and environmental fragility that left them weak and crisis prone. Focusing on correspondence between the Ferronnayses and their plantation managers, Cul de Sac proposes that the Caribbean plantation system, with its reliance on factory-like production processes and highly integrated markets, was a particularly modern expression of eighteenth-century capitalism. But it rested on a foundation of economic and political traditionalism that stymied growth and adaptation. The result was a system heading toward collapse as planters, facing a series of larger crises in the French empire, vainly attempted to rein in the inherent violence and instability of the slave society they had built. In recovering the lost world of the French Antillean plantation, Cul de Sac ultimately reveals how the capitalism of the plantation complex persisted not as a dynamic source of progress, but from the inertia of a degenerate system headed down an economic and ideological dead end.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 264
ISBN-13: 9780226079356
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 022607935X
Kategori: Historie
Udg. Dato: 27 feb 2017
Længde: 2mm
Bredde: 16mm
Højde: 24mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 27 feb 2017
Forfatter(e): Paul Cheney
Forfatter(e) Paul Cheney

Kategori Historie

ISBN-13 9780226079356

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 264

Udgave

Længde 2mm

Bredde 16mm

Højde 24mm

Udg. Dato 27 feb 2017

Oplagsdato 27 feb 2017

Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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