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Author:

Dal Lago, Enrico, 1966-

Title:

American slavery, Atlantic slavery, and beyond : the U.S. "peculiar institution" in international perspective / Enrico Dal Lago.

Publisher:

Paradigm Pub.,

Copyright Date:

c2012

Description:

xi, 235 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Slavery--United States--History.
Slavery--History.--United States--History.
Slavery--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Slavery--History.--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.
Cotton growing--History.--Southern States--History.
International economic relations--History--19th century.
United States--Causes.--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : from American slavery to Atlantic slavery, and beyond -- American slavery at the periphery of the Atlantic system -- Colonial slave societies between reforms and revolutions -- The 'cotton kingdom', its neighbors, and its contemporaries -- Servitude and agrarian labor in the Euro-American world -- Abolitionism and nationalism on the two sides of the Atlantic -- The American Civil War, slavery, and emancipation in a nation-building age -- Conclusion : American slavery in Atlantic and Euro-American perspective.

Series:

U.S. history in international perspective

ISBN:

1594515859 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781594515859 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1594515840 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781594515842 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)714715818

LCCN:

2011042175

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)