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Author:
Rood, Daniel, author.
Title:
The reinvention of Atlantic slavery : technology, labor, race, and capitalism in the greater Caribbean / Daniel B. Rood.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
xiii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subject:
Slavery--History.--Caribbean Area--History.
Slavery--History.--United States--History.
Plantations--History.--Caribbean Area--History.
Plantations--History.--United States--History.
Technology--History.--Caribbean Area--History.
Technology--History.--United States--History.
Slavery--Caribbean Area--History--19th century.
Slavery--United States--History--19th century.
Plantations--Economic aspects.
Slavery.
Slavery--Economic aspects.
Technology--Economic aspects.
Caribbean Area.
United States.
1800-1899
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Atlantic inversions -- A Creole industrial revolution in the Cuban sugar mill -- El principio sacarino: purity, equilibrium, and whiteness in the sugar mill -- From an infrastructure of fees to an infrastructure of flows: the warehouse revolution in Havana harbor -- Wrought-iron politics: racial knowledge in the making of a greater Caribbean railroad industry -- Sweetness and debasement: flour and coffee in the Richmond-Rio circuit -- Entangled technologies: Richmond and the transformation of American flour milling -- An international harvest: the development of the McCormick Reaper -- Futures of racial capitalism.
ISBN:
0190655267
9780190655266
OCLC:
(OCoLC)965754157
LCCN:
2016053523
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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