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The plantation machine : Atlantic capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica
- Title
- The plantation machine : Atlantic capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica / Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus.
- Author
- Burnard, Trevor G. (Trevor Graeme)
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Garrigus, John D.
- Description
- 350 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- Jamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. Using a wide range of archival evidence, The Plantation Machine traces a critical half-century in the development of the social, economic, and political frameworks that made these societies possible.
- Series Statement
- The early modern Americas
- Uniform Title
- Early modern Americas.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-334) and index.
- Contents
- A comparative history of Jamaica and Saint-Domingue -- The plantation world -- Urban life -- The Seven Years' War in the West Indies -- Dangerous internal enemies -- Racial reconfigurations before the American Revolution -- The golden age of the plantocracy -- The American Revolution in the Greater Antilles -- Recovery and consolidation in the 1780s -- The Ancien Régime in the Greater Antilles.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-1444
- ISBN
- 9780812248296
- 0812248295
- OCLC
- 927401402
- Author
- Burnard, Trevor, 1960- author.
- Title
- The plantation machine : Atlantic capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica / Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The early modern AmericasEarly modern Americas.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-334) and index.
- Chronological Term
- To 1962
- Added Author
- Garrigus, John D., author.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-1444