Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History

by Ian Baucom

Paperback, 2005

Status

Available

Call number

HT1162 .B38

Tags

Black History, Capitalism, Racism

Genres

Publication

Duke University Press (2005), 398 pages

Description

Cultural and literary study of the 1781 massacre on the slaveship Zong for the insurance money and the aftereffects of the event on the development of modernity.

ISBN

0822335964 / 9780822335962

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