Capitalism and Antislavery [electronic resource] : British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective / by Seymour Drescher.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781349070008
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/30846
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 1986.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 1986.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XV, 300 p. online resource.
Özet, vb.
Three hundred years ago Britain was what she is again, a mid-sized island off the coast of Eurasia. Between then and now she became the centre of a world economy. And just midway upon this imperial passage the people of the Empire, free Britons and colonial slaves, secured the destruction of slavery and hastened its demise throughout the world. Those who were part of Britain's Atlantic economy but free of direct economic dependency were the most effective agents in that process. The great novelty of this process therefore lay in the fact that for the first time in history the nonslave masses, including working men and women, played a direct and decisive role in bringing chattel slavery to an end. Seymour Drescher's study focuses attention on the period when popular pressure was effectively deployed as a means of altering national policy, and at those fault-lines in British society which seem to have partly determined the timing and intensity of abolition.
Konu
Great Britain __ History.
Political science.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Political Science.