Author: William Lewis Herndon
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Category : Amazon River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Author: Boston Society of Natural History
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Author: Matthew Karp
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674737253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369

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Most leaders of the U.S. expansion in the years before the Civil War were southern slaveholders. As Matthew Karp shows, they were nationalists, not separatists. When Lincoln’s election broke their grip on foreign policy, these elites formed their own Confederacy not merely to preserve their property but to shape the future of the Atlantic world.

Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382196948
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author: Vermont State Library
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: Benjamin Perley Poore
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 704

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Author: Roberto Saba
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691202699
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and Brazil In the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the largest slave societies in the Western world. The former enslaved approximately four million people, the latter nearly two million. Slavery was integral to the production of agricultural commodities for the global market, and governing elites feared the system’s demise would ruin their countries. Yet, when slavery ended in the United States and Brazil, in 1865 and 1888 respectively, what resulted was immediate and continuous economic progress. In American Mirror, Roberto Saba investigates how American and Brazilian reformers worked together to ensure that slave emancipation would advance the interests of capital. Saba explores the methods through which antislavery reformers fostered capitalist development in a transnational context. From the 1850s to the 1880s, this coalition of Americans and Brazilians—which included diplomats, engineers, entrepreneurs, journalists, merchants, missionaries, planters, politicians, scientists, and students, among others—consolidated wage labor as the dominant production system in their countries. These reformers were not romantic humanitarians, but cosmopolitan modernizers who worked together to promote labor-saving machinery, new transportation technology, scientific management, and technical education. They successfully used such innovations to improve production and increase trade. Challenging commonly held ideas about slavery and its demise in the Western Hemisphere, American Mirror illustrates the crucial role of slave emancipation in the making of capitalism.

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Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Languages : en
Pages : 968

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Languages : en
Pages : 424

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