'Capitalism and Slavery' Fifty Years Later

Eric Eustace Williams. A Reassessment of the Man and His Work. Edited by Heather Cateau and S. H. H. Carrington.

11 contributions provide insights into the man and his work, holistic views on the text, and continuative studies on slave trade, slavery, profitability and decline. Eric Williams’ seminal work Capitalism and Slavery has received continued reassessment since publication in 1944. Its major themes - the origins of slavery; the profitability of the slave trade and slavery; the decline of the British West Indies; and the economic motivation for emancipation - are still hotly debated. This book continues this process, however, it also explores less developed themes as well as new developments in Caribbean historiography. It also seeks to shed some insight on the issues that influenced Eric Williams and informed the purpose with which he wrote history. XVII,247 Seiten, gebunden (Peter Lang Verlag 2000) Mängelexemplar/near mint