Moral capital: foundations of British abolitionism

"Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentim...

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1. Verfasser: Brown, Christopher Leslie (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill [u.a.] Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the Univ. of North Carolina Press 2006
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Zusammenfassung:"Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment to action to changing views of empire and nation in Britain, particularly the anxieties and dislocations spurred by the American Revolution"--Back cover.
Beschreibung:X, 480 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:0807830348
0807856983
9780807830345
9780807856987

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