Rethinking the fall of the planter class /

Rethinking the fall of the planter class /

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Imprint:	London : Routledge, 2017. ©2017
Description:	ix, 128 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Commerce. Economic history. Social conditions. West Indies, British -- Economic conditions. West Indies, British -- Commerce. West Indies, British -- Social conditions. West Indies -- British West Indies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12409468

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Other authors / contributors:	Petley, Christer.
ISBN:	1138699756 9781138699755
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	From the late eighteenth century, the planter class of the British Caribbean were faced with challenges stemming from revolutions, war, the rise of abolitionism and social change. By the nineteenth century, this once powerful group within the British Empire found itself struggling to influence an increasingly hostile government in London. By 1807, parliament had voted to abolish the slave trade: an early episode in a wider drama of decline for New World plantation economies. This book brings together chapters by a group of leading scholars to rethink the question of the 'fall of the planter class', offering a variety of new approaches to the topic, encompassing economic, political, cultural, and social history and providing a significant new contribution to our rapidly evolving understanding of the end of slavery in the British Atlantic empire. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.

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Call Number:	HC155.5 .R48 2017
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