Through the prism of slavery : labor, capital, and world economy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Tomich, Dale W., 1946-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2004]
Series:	World social change.
Subjects:	Slave labor > Caribbean Area > History > 19th century. Slavery > Caribbean Area > History > 19th century. Sugarcane industry > Caribbean Area > History. Slave labor > History > 19th century.

Table of Contents:

World market and American slavery: problems of historical method
World of capital, worlds of labor: reworking class in global perspective
The "second slavery": bonded labor and the transformation of the nineteenth century world economy
World slavery and Caribbean capitalism: the Cuban sugar industry, 1760-1868
Spaces of slavery: times of freedom: rethinking Caribbean history in world perspective
Small islands & huge comparisons: Caribbean plantations, historical unevenness, & capitalist modernity
White days, black days: the working day and the crisis of slavery in the French Caribbean
Une petite guine: provision ground and plantation in Martinique, 1830-1870
Contested terrains: houses, provision grounds, and the reconstitution of labor in post-emancipation Martinique.