{"product_id":"lucky-valley-edward-long-and-the-history-of-racial-capitalism-hardback-9781009098854","title":"Lucky Valley; Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (Hardback) 9781009098854","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLucky Valley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEdward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eReveals how Edward Long's History of Jamaica helped to shape ideas of White and Black as essentially different and unequal.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCatherine Hall (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009098854, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 22 February 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e350 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 3 cm, 0.98 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'Slaveholders, merchants, traders, and others involved in Atlantic plantation colonies practiced racial oppression in the service of profit. Lucky Valley demonstrates how that system worked. One legacy of this system is continued racial oppression, and Hall argues that Long and his writing were central in creating this end.' Katherine Johnston, Journal of Modern History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhy does Edward Long's History of Jamaica matter? Written in 1774, Long's History, that most 'civilised' of documents, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Long deployed natural history and social theory, carefully mapping the island, and drawing on poetry and engravings, in his efforts to establish a clear and fixed racialized hierarchy. His White family sat at the heart of Jamaican planter society and the West India trade in sugar, which provided the economic bedrock of this eighteenth-century system of racial capitalism. Catherine Hall tells the story behind the History of a slave-owning family that prospered across generations together with the destruction of such possibilities for enslaved people. She unpicks the many contradictions in Long's thinking, exposing the insidious myths and stereotypes that have poisoned social relations over generations and allowed reconfigured forms of racial difference and racial capitalism to live on in contemporary societies.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eI. Growing up English: 1. A gentleman's son\u003cbr\u003e 2. The young Englishman\u003cbr\u003e II. The Lineaments of Racial Capitalism: 3. The plantation\u003cbr\u003e 4. The merchant house\u003cbr\u003e 5. Reproducing capital: the Long family\u003cbr\u003e III. Making a Slave Society: 6. Colonizing geographies\u003cbr\u003e 7. Colonizing the state\u003cbr\u003e 8. Theorizing racial difference\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: British \u0026amp; Irish history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on British \u0026amp; Irish history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22British%20\u0026amp;%20Irish%20history%20%5BHBJD1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJD1\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52165879333144,"sku":"9781009098854","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781009098854i.jpg?v=1781101364","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/lucky-valley-edward-long-and-the-history-of-racial-capitalism-hardback-9781009098854","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}