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viii, 355 pages : map ; 24 cm |
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"W.E.B. Dubois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University". |
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"The chapters in this volumes were originally presented at a conference ... held at Harvard University on September 4-5, 1988. The conference was sponsored by the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Studies [sic] and the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History at Harvard University ..."--Preface. |
Contents |
Slavery and colonization / Barbara L. Solow -- The Old World background of slavery in the Americas / William D. Phillips, Jr. -- Slavery and lagging capitalism in the Spanish and Portuguese American empires, 1492-1713 / Franklin W. Knight -- The Dutch and the making of the second Atlantic system / P.C. Emmer -- Precolonial western Africa and the Atlantic economy / David Eltis -- A marginal institution on the margin of the Atlantic system : the Portuguese southern Atlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century / Joseph C. Miller -- The apprenticeship of colonization / Luiz Felipe de Alencastro -- Exports and the growth of the British economy from the Glorious Revolution to the Peace of Amiens / P.K. O'Brien and S.L. Engerman -- The slave and colonial trade in France just before the Revolution / Patrick Villiers -- Slavery, trade, and economic growth in eighteenth-century New England / David Richardson -- Economic aspects of the growth of slavery in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake / David W. Galenson -- Credit in the slave trade and plantation economies / Jacob M. Price. |
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0521400902 |
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9780521400909 |
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0521457378 |
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9780521457378 (pbk.) |
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9780521400909 |
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0521400902 (hbk.) |
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0521457378 (pbk.) |
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