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Specters of the Atlantic : finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history
- Title
- Specters of the Atlantic : finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history / Ian Baucom.
- Author
- Baucom, Ian, 1967-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
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- Description
- x, 387 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Slave trade > Africa > History > 18th century
- Zong (Ship)
- Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Trials > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Slave trade > America > History > 18th century
- Slave trade > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Abolitionists > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Capitalism > Social aspects > History > 18th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-376) and index.
- Contents
- "Now being" : slavery, speculation, and the measure of our time -- Liverpool, a capital of the long twentieth century -- "Subject $" : or, the "type" of the modern -- "Madam death! madam death!" : credit, insurance, and the Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation -- "Signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognostikon" : modernity and the truth event -- "Please decide" : the singular and the speculative -- Specters of the Atlantic : slavery and the witness -- Frontispiece : testimony, rights, and the state of exception -- The view from the window : sympathy, melancholy, and the problem of "humanity" -- The fact of history : on cosmopolitan interestedness -- The imaginary resentment of the dead : a theory of melancholy sentiment -- "To tumble into it, and gasp for breath as we go down" : the idea of suffering and the case of liberal cosmopolitanism -- This/such, for instance : the witness against "history" -- "The sea is history" -- "The sea is history" : on temporal accumulation.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-1973
- ISBN
- 0822335581 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822335964 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005013577
- OCLC
- 60455015
- Author
- Baucom, Ian, 1967-
- Title
- Specters of the Atlantic : finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history / Ian Baucom.
- Imprint
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-376) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-1973