"Now being" : slavery, speculation, and the measure of our time -- Liverpool, a capital of the long twentieth century -- "Subject $" : or, the "type" of the modern -- "Madam death! madam death!" : credit, insurance, and the Atlantic cycle of capital accumulati...

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Main Author:	Baucom, Ian 1967- (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Durham Duke University Press 2005
Subjects:	Zong (Ship) Slave trade / History / 18th century / Great Britain Slave trade / History / 18th century / Africa Slave trade / History / 18th century / America Antislavery movements / History / 18th century / Great Britain Abolitionists / History / 18th century / Great Britain Trials / History / 18th century / Great Britain Capitalism / Social aspects / History / 18th century
Summary:	"Now being" : slavery, speculation, and the measure of our time -- Liverpool, a capital of the long twentieth century -- "Subject $" : or, the "type" of the modern -- "Madam death! madam death!" : credit, insurance, and the Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation -- "Signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognostikon" : modernity and the truth event -- "Please decide" : the singular and the speculative -- Specters of the Atlantic : slavery and the witness -- Frontispiece : testimony, rights, and the state of exception -- The view from the window : sympathy, melancholy, and the problem of "humanity" -- The fact of history : on cosmopolitan interestedness -- The imaginary resentment of the dead : a theory of melancholy sentiment -- "To tumble into it, and gasp for breath as we go down" : the idea of suffering -- And the case of liberal cosmopolitanism -- This/such, for instance : the witness against "history" -- "The sea is history" -- "The sea is history" : on temporal accumulation
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [336]-376) and index
Physical Description:	x, 387 p 25 cm
ISBN:	9780822387022 0822387026