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Race and Rurality in the Global Economy
(October 2018)
Michaeline A. Crichlow - Editor
Patricia Northover - Editor
Juan Giusti-Cordero - Editor
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Essays that examine globalization’s effects with an emphasis on the interplay of race and rurality as it occurs across diverse geographies and peoples.
Issues of migration, environment, rurality, and the visceral “politics of place” and “space” have occupied center stage in recent electoral political struggles in the United States and Europe, suffused by an antiglobalization discourse that has come ...(Read More) |
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The Trade in the Living
(September 2018)
The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries
Luiz Felipe de Alencastro - Author
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Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil’s emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.
The seventeenth-century missionary and diplomat Father Antônio Vieira once observed that Brazil was nourished, animated, sustained, served, and conserved by the “sad blood” of the “black and unfortunat...(Read More) |
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The Politics of the Second Slavery
(December 2016)
Dale W. Tomich - Editor
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Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas.
The creation of new frontiers of slave commodity production and the expansion and intensification of slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the southern United States were an integral part of the expansion of the world economy during the nineteenth century. Beginning from this vantage point, The Politics of the Second Slavery br...(Read More) |
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Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition
(April 2016)
Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830-1848
Dale W. Tomich - Author
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Traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in nineteenth-century Martinique.
A classic text long out of print, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in Martinique during the period immediately preceding slave emancipation in 1848. Interpreting these events against the broader background of the world-economy, Dale W. Tomi...(Read More) |
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New Frontiers of Slavery
(March 2016)
Dale W. Tomich - Edited and with an introduction by
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Essays challenging conventional understandings of the slave economy of the nineteenth century.
The essays presented in New Frontiers of Slavery represent new analytical and interpretive approaches to the crisis of Atlantic slavery during the nineteenth century. By treating slavery within the framework of the modern world economy, they call attention to new zones of slave production that were formed as par...(Read More) |
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The Longue Duree and World-Systems Analysis
(May 2012)
Richard E. Lee - Edited and with an introduction by
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Scholars from history, sociology, and geography advocate overcoming disciplinary isolation, using Fernand Braudel’s concept of the longue durée as a rallying point.
In his pathbreaking article “History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée,” Fernand Braudel raised a call for the social sciences to overcome their disciplinary isolation from one another. Commemoratin...(Read More) |
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Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, III
(November 2010)
Dualism
Richard E. Lee - Editor
Immanuel Wallerstein - Foreword by
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A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of dualism.
During the last few decades, the fundamental premises of the modern view of knowledge have been increasingly called into question. Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, III: Dualism provides an in-depth look at “dualism” in the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities in detailed and w...(Read More) |
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Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, I
(October 2010)
Determinism
Richard E. Lee - Editor
Immanuel Wallerstein - Foreword by
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A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of determinism.
During the last few decades, the fundamental premises of the modern view of knowledge have been increasingly called into question. Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, I: Determinism provides an in-depth look at “determinism” in the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities in det...(Read More) |
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Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, II
(October 2010)
Reductionism
Richard E. Lee - Editor
Immanuel Wallerstein - Foreword by
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A provocative survey of interdisciplinary challenges to the concept of reductionism.
During the last few decades, the fundamental premises of the modern view of knowledge have been increasingly called into question. Questioning Nineteenth-Century Assumptions about Knowledge, II: Reductionism provides an in-depth look at the debates surrounding the status of “reductionism” in the sciences, ...(Read More) |
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