Opis: Capitalism and Slavery - Williams Eric

'If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our most basic way of viewing an object or a concept, Eric Williams's study supremely passes that test' Seymour Drescher

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

Szczegóły: Capitalism and Slavery - Williams Eric

Tytuł: Capitalism and Slavery
Autor: Williams Eric
Wydawnictwo: Penguin Books
Seria: Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780241548165
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2021
Ilość stron: 288
Format: 13.0x20.0cm
Oprawa: Miękka
Waga: 0.228 kg

Recenzje: Capitalism and Slavery - Williams Eric