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Studies on Slavery in Brazilian and African History and Literature
Historically, Latin American political entities were structured by different forms of slave-labor that until the 19th century depended on transatlantic slave trade from Africa to the Americas. In this volume, scholars from Brazil, Germany, and Africa characterize different forms of serfdom in colonial times, picture slavery-based societies and explore aspects of dependency relations that emerged in the aftermath of abolition in Brazil and Africa.
The Second Slavery
Introduction: African slaves and the Atlantic: a cultural overview / Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch -- The end of the British Atlantic slave trade or the beginning of the big slave robbery, 1808-1850 / Christian Cwik -- Peasant or proletarian: emancipation and the struggle for freedom in British Guiana in the shadow of the second slavery / Wazir Mohamed -- The end of the "second slavery" in the Confederate South and the "great brigandage" in southern Italy: a comparative study / Enrico dal Lago -- Puerto Rico: "atlantización" and culture during the "segunda esclavitud" / Javier Laviña -- The second slavery: modernity, mobility, and identity of captives in nineteenth-century Cuba and the Atlantic world / Michael Zeuske -- Commodity frontiers, conjuncture, and crisis: the remaking of the Caribbean sugar industry, 1783-1866 / Dale Tomich -- The aftermath of abolition: distortions of the historical record in Machado di Assis' Counselor Aires' memorial / Luiza Franco Moreira -- The second slavery: modernity in the nineteenth-century South and the Atlantic world / Anthony E. Kaye
American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond
American Slavery, Atlantic Slavery, and Beyond provides an up-to-date summary of past and present views of American slavery in international perspective and suggests new directions for current and future comparative scholarship. It argues that we can better understand the nature and meaning of American slavery and antislavery if we place them clearly within a Euro-American context. Current scholarship on American slavery acknowledges the importance of the continental and Atlantic dimensions of the historical phenomenon, comparing it often with slavery in the Caribbean and Latin America. However, since the 1980s, a handful of studies has looked further and has compared American slavery with E...
The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence
Bringing together experts across Latin America, North America, and Spain, The Cambridge Companion to Latin American Independence innovatively revisits Latin American independence within a larger regional, temporal, and thematic framework to highlight its significance for the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. The volume offers a synthetic yet comprehensive tool for understanding and assessing the most current studies in the field and their analytical contributions to the broader historiography. Organized thematically and across different regions of the Iberian Peninsula and Spanish and Luso America, the essays deepen well-known conclusions and reveal new interpretations. They offer analytical interventions that produce new questions on periodization, the meaning of anti-colonialism, liberalism, and republicanism, as well as the militarization of societies, public opinion, the role of sciences, labor regimes, and gender dynamics. A much-needed addition to the existing scholarship, this volume brings a transnational perspective to a critical period of history in Latin America.
Looking Backward and Looking Forward
Asserting the need for social science historians to examine their own field, this wide-ranging volume offers an intellectual history and critical evaluation of interdisciplinary social science and social science historiography. The editors present a creative, experimental mix of topics and genres spanning a range of contemporary thought in the field--exploring the past, present, and future of social science history. This book comes at a time when there is great academic interest in the future of the disciplines and in their place within the organization of university education. Based on the 25th anniversary conference of the Social Science History Association, 2000.
Premises and Problems
World literature, many have stressed, is a systematic category. Both literary scholars and social scientists have argued that the prestige of the major literary languages is key to establishing the shape of the overall system. In order to critically interrogate world literature and cinema, Premises and Problems approaches this system from the perspective of languages and film traditions that do not hold a hegemonic position. This perspective raises new questions about the nature of literary hegemony and the structure of world literature: How is hegemony established? What are the costs of losing it? What does hegemony mask? How is it masked? The contributors focus predominantly on literatures...
Through the Prism of Slavery
In this thoughtful book, Dale W. Tomich explores the contested relationship between slavery and capitalism. Tracing slavery's integral role in the formation of a capitalist world economy, he reinterprets the development of the world economy through the "prism of slavery." Through a sustained critique of Marxism, world-systems theory, and new economic history, Tomich develops an original conceptual framework for answering theoretical and historical questions about the nexus between slavery and the world economy. The author explores how particular slave systems were affected by their integration into the world market, the international division of labor, and the interstate system. He further e...
