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The Dutch slave trade, slavery and abolitionism have long remained unduly neglected issues in the burgeoning international debate on capitalism, modernity, and antislavery. Fifty Years Later now offers a thorough and wide-ranging discussion of antislavery in the Netherlands and in the Dutch colonial world, and also provides a fresh contribution to the ongoing debate on the relationship between abolitionism and economic, political and cultural modernization in the Western world at large.… (more)
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Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (1996)
Description
First work extensively examining antislavery in the Dutch world, this collection of 12 essays by Dutch and US scholars focuses on antislavery, capitalism, and modernization in The Netherlands and its colonies in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Anchor article is by Seymour Drescher. [RH]
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English
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6.25 inches
ISBN
0822955873 / 9780822955870