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Building the Atlantic empires : unfree labor and imperial states in the political economy of capitalism, ca. 1500-1914 / edited by John Donoghue, Evelyn P. Jennings.

Contributor(s): Donoghue, John (Historian) [editor.] | Jennings, Evelyn P [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in global social history: v. 20.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: xiv, 215 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004285194 (hardback : acidfree paper); 9004285199 (hardback : acid-free paper)Subject(s): Forced labor -- America -- History | Europe -- Colonies -- History | America -- Economic conditions | America -- Social conditions | Economic development -- Social aspects -- America -- History | Imperialism -- Economic aspects -- Europe -- History | Imperialism -- Economic aspects -- America -- History | Capitalism -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History | Capitalism -- Social aspects -- America -- HistoryDDC classification: 331.11/730970903 LOC classification: HD4875.A837 | B84 2016Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The sinews of Spain's American empire : forced labor in Cuba from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries / Evelyn F. Jennings -- Indian freedom and Indian slavery in the Portuguese Amazon (1640-1755) / Rafael Chambouleyron -- Constructing the Atlantic's boundaries : forced and coerced labor on imperial fortifications in colonial Florida / James Coltrain -- "For the reputation and respectability of the state" : trade, the imperial state, unfree labor, and empire in the Dutch Atlantic / Pepijn Brandon and Karwan Fatah-Black -- The unfree origins of English empire-building in the seventeenth century Atlantic / John Donoghue -- Indenture, transportation, and spiriting : seventeenth century English penal policy and 'superfluous' populations / Anna Suranyi -- Citizens of the empire? : indentured labor, global capitalism and the limits of French republicanism in colonial Guadeloupe / Elizabeth Heath.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The sinews of Spain's American empire : forced labor in Cuba from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries / Evelyn F. Jennings -- Indian freedom and Indian slavery in the Portuguese Amazon (1640-1755) / Rafael Chambouleyron -- Constructing the Atlantic's boundaries : forced and coerced labor on imperial fortifications in colonial Florida / James Coltrain -- "For the reputation and respectability of the state" : trade, the imperial state, unfree labor, and empire in the Dutch Atlantic / Pepijn Brandon and Karwan Fatah-Black -- The unfree origins of English empire-building in the seventeenth century Atlantic / John Donoghue -- Indenture, transportation, and spiriting : seventeenth century English penal policy and 'superfluous' populations / Anna Suranyi -- Citizens of the empire? : indentured labor, global capitalism and the limits of French republicanism in colonial Guadeloupe / Elizabeth Heath.

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