Through the Prism of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy
Tomich (sociology and history, Binghamton U.) assembles nine essays that are part of his effort to comprehend the role of New World slavery in the making of the capitalist world economy. He looks at how the histories of particular slave formations in the Americas have been shaped by how they were integrated into the world market, the division of labor, and the interstate system. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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This thoughtful book explores the contested relationship between slavery and capitalism. Tracing slavery's integral role in the formation of a capitalist world economy, Dale W. Tomich 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, the author develops an original conceptual framework for answering theoretical and historical questions about the nexus between slavery and the world economy.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Capitalism, Slavery, and World Economy: Historical Theory and Theoretical History32World of Capital, Worlds of Labor: A Global Perspective323The "Second Slavery": Bonded Labor and the Transformation of the Nineteenth-Century World Economy564World Slavery and Caribbean Capitalism: The Cuban Sugar Industry, 1760-1868755Spaces of Slavery: Times of Freedom - Rethinking Caribbean History in World Perspective956Small Islands and Huge Comparisons: Caribbean Plantations, Historical Unevenness, and Capitalist Modernity1207White Days, Black Days: The Working Day and the Crisis of Slavery in the French Caribbean1398Une Petite Guinee: Provision Ground and Plantation in Martinique - Integration, Adaptation, and Appropriation1529Contested Terrains: Houses, Provision Grounds, and the Reconstitution of Labor in Postemancipation Martinique173Bibliography193Index203About the Author207
