{"product_id":"abolition-a-history-of-slavery-and-antislavery-hardback-9780521841023","title":"Abolition; A History of Slavery and Antislavery (Hardback) 9780521841023","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAbolition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA History of Slavery and Antislavery\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book examines the impact of violence, economics, and civil society in the ebb and flow of slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSeymour Drescher (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521841023, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 July 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e484 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.9 x 16 x 3.3 cm, 0.77 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Seymour Drescher has given us the most comprehensive account to date of the rise and fall of modern slavery … The book is the fruit of a lifetime's work by a scholar whose interests have ranged over the entire field of slave studies. It is unlikely that we will see another study of this scope and calibre for a long time.' The Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn one form or another, slavery has existed throughout the world for millennia. It helped to change the world, and the world transformed the institution. In the 1450s, when Europeans from the small corner of the globe least enmeshed in the institution first interacted with peoples of other continents, they created, in the Americas, the most dynamic, productive, and exploitative system of coerced labor in human history. Three centuries later these same intercontinental actions produced a movement that successfully challenged the institution at the peak of its dynamism. Within another century a new surge of European expansion constructed Old World empires under the banner of antislavery. However, twentieth-century Europe itself was inundated by a new system of slavery, larger and more deadly than its earlier system of New World slavery. This book examines these dramatic expansions and contractions of the institution of slavery and the impact of violence, economics, and civil society in the ebb and flow of slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Extension: 1. A perennial institution\u003cbr\u003e 2. Expanding slavery\u003cbr\u003e 3. Extension and tension\u003cbr\u003e 4. Border skirmishes\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Crisis: 5. Age of American revolution 1770s–1820s\u003cbr\u003e 6. Franco-American revolutions 1780s–1820s\u003cbr\u003e 7. Latin American revolutions 1810s–1820s\u003cbr\u003e 8. Abolitionism without revolution: Great Britain 1770s–1820s\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Contraction: 9. British emancipation\u003cbr\u003e 10. From colonial emancipation to global abolition\u003cbr\u003e 11. The end of slavery: Anglo-America\u003cbr\u003e 12. Abolishing New World slavery: Latin America\u003cbr\u003e 13. Constructing Old World slavery: 1870s–1920s\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Reversion: 14. Inversion in Europe\u003cbr\u003e 15. Afterword.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Slavery \u0026amp; abolition of slavery [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Slavery \u0026amp; abolition of slavery\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Slavery%20\u0026amp;%20abolition%20of%20slavery%20%5BHBTS%5D%22\"\u003eHBTS\u003c\/a\u003e], General \u0026amp; world history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on General \u0026amp; world history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22General%20\u0026amp;%20world%20history%20%5BHBG%5D%22\"\u003eHBG\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913162940696,"sku":"9780521841023","price":93.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521841023i_ce079119-1323-48cc-9314-eddc8dcf9780.jpg?v=1691368699","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/abolition-a-history-of-slavery-and-antislavery-hardback-9780521841023","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}