Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French by Paul Cheney PDF

By Paul Cheney

In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac undeniable in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, used to be an enormous open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of 1 plantation owned via the Ferron de l. a. Ferronnayses, a kin of Breton nobles, attracts on notable archival unearths to teach that regardless of the wealth such plantations produced, they operated in a context of social, political, and environmental fragility that left them susceptible and situation prone.

Focusing on correspondence among the Ferronnayses and their plantation managers, Cul de Sac proposes that the Caribbean plantation method, with its reliance on factory-like construction strategies and hugely built-in markets, was a rather glossy expression of eighteenth-century capitalism. however it rested on a starting place of monetary and political traditionalism that stymied progress and edition. the end result used to be a process heading towards cave in as planters, dealing with a chain of bigger crises within the French empire, vainly tried to rein within the inherent violence and instability of the slave society they'd outfitted. In recuperating the misplaced global of the French Antillean plantation, Cul de Sac finally unearths how the capitalism of the plantation complicated persevered now not as a dynamic resource of development, yet from the inertia of a degenerate method headed down an financial and ideological useless end.

Show description

Read Online or Download Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue PDF

Similar world history books

New PDF release: The Kalamata Diary: Greece, War, and Emigration

From October 28, 1940 till February of 1947, Sotiria Salivaras supplied a special eye-witness account of lifestyles in Kalamata, Greece sooner than, in the course of, and after global warfare II via her meticulous diary entries. within the Kalamata Diary: Greece, warfare and Emigration, Eduardo D. Faingold rigorously analyzes and contextualizes the most important occasions in glossy Greek background approximately which Salivaras writes in her diary.

Download PDF by Austen Dennison: Dutch Wonderland (Images of Modern America)

Dutch Wonderland's tale begun with Earl Clark, a neighborhood potato dealer and inn proprietor who observed the necessity for an charm within the Lancaster sector that may attract youngsters. After virtually 9 months of building, Clark formally opened Dutch Wonderland to the general public on may perhaps 20, 1963. Like such a lot parks, Dutch Wonderland began small, however it quickly turned one of many largest sights within the quarter.

New PDF release: Guilford (Images of America)

Guilford, which debuted in 1913 as a collaboration of the Roland Park corporation and the acclaimed Olmsted Brothers, grew to become a version for suburban advancements nationally. Carved from the rustic property of Baltimore sunlight founder Arunah Shepherdson Abell, Guilford was once a pastoral retreat for Baltimore�s social elite.

British University Observatories 1772–1939 (Science, by Roger Hutchins PDF

British college Observatories fills a niche within the historiography of British astronomy through delivering the histories of observatories pointed out as a bunch via their shared features. the 1st complete histories of the Oxford and Cambridge observatories are the following primary to an explanatory historical past of every of the six that undertook examine earlier than global struggle II - Oxford, Dunsink, Cambridge, Durham, Glasgow and London.

Additional info for Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue

Example text

Download PDF sample

Cul de Sac: Patrimony, Capitalism, and Slavery in French Saint-Domingue by Paul Cheney


by Brian
4.5

Rated 4.27 of 5 – based on 5 votes