About this title: Eric Williams's Capitalism & Slavery became the foundation for many future studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION REFUTED TRADITIONAL IDEAS OF ECONOMIC AND MORAL PROGRESS AND FIRMLY ESTABLISHED ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The University of North Carolina
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780807844885ISBN:0807844888
Description: Very Good. Cover has some edge wear. Light soiling on FF and sides of book. Slight corner creasing or edge wear. Pages are clean and unmarked. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr
Date Published: 1994-10-01
ISBN-13:9780807844885ISBN:0807844888
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The University of North Carolina
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780807844885ISBN:0807844888
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The University of North Carolina
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780807844885ISBN:0807844888
Description: Good. --All NEW items are exactly as provided by the publisher. All USED items are in Good condition or better, and copies may contain store stickers, highlighting, etc from normal use by previous owner(s). One-time use supplements (e.g., access codes, tear-out flash cards, reference cards, etc) provided with new copies are NOT guaranteed. --Professional booksellers: inquiries always welcome. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA PR
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780807844885ISBN:0807844888
Description: New. Eric Williams's Capitalism & Slavery became the foundation for many future studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the INDUS... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Capricorn Books, New York U. S. A.
Date Published: 1966
Description: Very Good+ Marfree, tite square acidfree reprint w/ all notes as shown, looks unopened; exterior sunned no names, not marked-in, underscored, clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours.; 285 pages; Ground breaking economic history--and support for reparation, Aug 2, 2003By Alan Mills (Chicago, Illinois USA)-The transformation from subsistance society where everyone more or less consumed what they produced, to international capitalism required as a precondition the ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Date Published: 1944
Description: Very Good/Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall B001IV8ZO8 VERY GOOD book (has prev. owner's name inside) in a GOOD dust jacket. This book is a study of how slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England; of how West Indian plantation owners, shipbuilders, and others connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes; of the way this money helped establish banks and finance heavy industry and other enterprises which brought about the Industrial Revolution. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Andre Deutsch Ltd
Date Published: 1964-12
ISBN-13:9780233956756ISBN:0233956751
Description: Fair. Ex-library copy has standard marks. Edge of pages light brown and first 40 pages have light pencil marks. Tight spine. Paperback. read more
"I enjoyed the marginalia in this book just as much as the text itself; evidently, previous readers took great exception to Williams' thesis that capitalism, not racism, was the driving force behind the development of West Indian slavery and the slave trade. Although I too am doubtful that a racist logic wasn't anterior to slavery (even if, as another reviewer writes, "race" is not a transhistorical concept), these readers seemed to assign to Williams the position that because slavery was first and foremost an economic institution it is somehow less horrendous than if it had emerged out of unadulterated racism - a position he simply does not take. I also suspect that these readers were unaware of who Williams actually was, and instead assumed he was some old white dude cloistered at Oxford or Cambridge and lacking any first-hand knowledge of the region."
"This is a research book first and foremost. The main point of the book is that without slavery there is no capitalism. This is the book that convinced me to go back to school and get a degree in economics. While maybe not riveting it certainly is an information packed book that backs up its argument really well."
"The Atlantic Slave Trade provided the investment capital needed to fund the development of capitalism and the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe. It's all here. Williams was the first to lay it all out. As a result, mainstream "historians" attacked and marginalized him. But he was basically right."
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