The economic aspect of the abolition of the West Indian slave trade and slavery /:

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerf...

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1. Verfasser: Williams, Eric Eustace, 1911-1981 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Tomich, Dale W., 1946- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
Schriftenreihe:World social change.
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Zusammenfassung:Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in the influential and widely debated Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944 and based on his previously unavailable dissertation, now available in book form for the first time. Williams's profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Establ.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781442231405
1442231408

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