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Author:   Dale W. Tomich
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Edition:   Second Edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.921kg
ISBN:  

9781438459172

ISBN 10:   1438459173
Pages:   526
Publication Date:   01 April 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Tables List of Illustrations Foreword Richard E. Lee Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgments Introduction to the First Edition: Sugar, Slavery, and Capitalism Introduction to the Second Edition: The Capitalist World-Economy as a Small Island 1. Sugar and Slavery in an Age of Global Transformation, 1791-1848 2. The Contradictions of Protectionism: Colonial Policy and the French Sugar Market, 1804-1848 3. The Local Face of World Process 4. Sugar and Slavery: Forces and Relations of Production 5. The Habitation Sucriere: Cell Unit of Colonial Production 6. Obstacles to Innovation 7. A Calculated and Calculating System: The Dialectic of Slave Labor 8. The Other Face of Slave Labor: Provision Grounds and Internal Marketing Conclusion: The Global in the Local: World-Economy, Sugar, and the Crisis of Plantation Slavery in Martinique Appendix 1 Estimated Volume of the Slave Trade to Martinique, 1814-1831 Appendix 2 Slave Prices by Age and Occupation, 1825-1839 Notes Bibliography Index

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""a valuable contribution to the recent focus on contextualizing slavery by emphasizing its defining relationship with the 'wider world-market.'"" — H-Net Reviews (H-LatAm)

...a valuable contribution to the recent focus on contextualizing slavery by emphasizing its defining relationship with the `wider world-market.' - H-Net Reviews (H-LatAm)

A classic text long out of print, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in Martinique during the period immediately preceding slave emancipation in 1848. Interpreting these events against the broader background of the world-economy, Dale W. Tomich analyzes the importance of topics such as British hegemony in the nineteenth century, related developments of the French economy, and competition from European beet sugar producers. He shows how slaves' adaptation-and resistance-to changing working conditions transformed the plantation labor regime and the very character of slavery itself. Based on archival sources in France and Martinique, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar offers a vivid reconstruction of the complex and contradictory interrelations among the world market, the material processes of sugar production, and the social relations of slavery. In this second edition, Tomich includes a new introduction in which he offers an explicit discussion of the methodological and theoretical issues entailed in developing and extending the world-systems perspective and clarifies the importance of the approach for the study of particular histories.

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Dale W. Tomich is Deputy Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, and Professor of Sociology and History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the editor of New Frontiers of Slavery, also published by SUNY Press.

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