Atlantic Transformations: Empire, Politics, and Slavery During the Nineteenth Century

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AuthorDale W Tomich
PublisherState University of New York Press
PublishedMar 30 2020
Book FormatHardcover
ISBN-139781438477855
Dimensions9.1 X 6.1 X 1 inches
Weight 0.95 pounds
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CategoriesHistory > Latin America - General
LanguageEnglish

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This book presents a new approach to nineteenth-century Atlantic history by extending the analytical perspective of the second slavery to questions of empire, colonialism, and slavery. With a focus on Latin America, Brazil, the Spanish Caribbean, and the United States, international scholars examine relations among empires, between empires and colonies, and within colonies as parts of processes of global economic and political restructuring. By treating metropolis-colony relations within the framework of the modern world-economy, the contributors call attention to the political, economic, and cultural interdependence and interaction of global and local forces shaping the Atlantic world. They reinterpret as specific local responses to global processes the conflicts between empires, within imperial relations, the formation of national states, the creation of new zones of agricultural production and the decline of old ones, and the emergence of liberal ideologies and institutions.

Author Bio

Dale Tomich’s research interests focus on world historical change. He is particularly concerned with the historical sociology of Latin America and the Caribbean as part of the historical formation of the modern world economy. His current research is a comparative study of slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States during the nineteenth century. He seeks to understand the ways that systems of slavery and forced labor expanded and were transformed in response to the industrialization of the world economy. Tomich offers courses on historical sociology, global inequalities, and social theory.

He is engaged in a collaborative interdisciplinary research project on the relation of function and representation in the making of plantation spaces in Brazil Cuba and the Lower Mississippi Valley.

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