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The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas
Edited by Robert L. Paquette and Mark M. Smith
792 pages
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246x171mm
978-0-19-922799-0
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Hardback
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29 July 2010
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- A comprehensive guide to the history and interpretation of slavery in the Americas, with over thirty contributions from an international team of leading scholars
- Impressive geographic and temporal coverage, with essays on colonial and antebellum America, Brazil, the Caribbean, the Indies, and South America
- Includes thematic essays on comparative slavery, the economics of slavery, historical methodology in the field, slavery and the law, among others
- Explains the enduring importance of earlier historiography, identifies current trends and developments, and offers informed commentary on future developments in the field
The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas offers penetrating, original, and authoritative essays on the history and historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World. With essays on colonial and antebellum America, Brazil, the Caribbean, the Indies, and South America, the Handbook has impressive geographic and temporal coverage. It also includes a generous range of thematic essays on comparative slavery, the economics of slavery, historical methodology in the field, slavery and the law, for instance.
While obviously indebted to the foundational works of the 1960s and 1970s, current writing on the history of slavery and forms of unfree labor in the Americas has taken decidedly original, new, often ingenious turns. A younger generation of scholars has shown a healthy respect for that tradition while posing new, often interdisciplinary, and theoretically informed questions, considering, for example, the nature and definition of slave resistance in the Americas, evolving meanings of gender and race under slavery, the complicated nature of class formation in unfree societies, the elaboration of proslavery and antislavery ideologies, the origins and subsequent elaboration of race-based slavery, and mechanisms of emancipation.
Written by an international team
including some of the field's most eminent historians and the most innovative younger scholars working today, The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas seeks to explain the enduring importance of the earlier historiography, identify current trends and developments, and offer suggestive but informed commentary on future developments in the field for a global scholarly audience.Readership: Scholars and students of the history of slavery
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Edited by Robert L. Paquette, Publius Virgilius Rogers Professor of American History at Hamilton College, New York, and Mark M. Smith, Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina Contributors:
Douglas Ambrose, Hamilton College, New York
Manuel Barcia, University of Leeds
Stephen Behrendt, University of Wellington, New Zealand
Peter Blanchard, University of Toronto
Trevor Burnard, University of Warwick
Matt D. Childs, University of South Carolina
Peter Coclanis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Enrico Dal
Lago, National University of Ireland, Galway
Kevin Dawson, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Douglas R. Egerton, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York
Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester
Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School
Jeff Forret, Lamar University, Texas
Allan Gallay, Ohio State University
John Garrigus, University of Texas at Arlington
Eugene D. Genovese, independent scholar
H. J. (Henk) den Heijer, University of Leiden
Kathleen Hilliard, Iowa State University
Stewart R. King, Mount Angel Seminary, Benedict, Oregon
Kenneth F. Kiple, Bowling Green State University
Daniel C. Littlefield, University of South Carolina
Timothy
Lockley, University of Warwick
K. Russell Lohse, Penn State University
John J. McCusker, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Russell R. Menard, University of Minnesota
Robert L. Paquette, Hamilton College, New York
Francisco Scarano, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Robert W. Slenes, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Fordham University
Mark M. Smith, University of South Carolina
John Stauffer, Harvard University
Richard H. Steckel, Ohio State University and the National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Michael Tadman, University of Liverpool
Theresa Singleton, Syracuse University
Jonathan
Daniel Wells, Temple University
Kirsten E. Wood, Florida International University in Miami
Jeffrey Robert Young, Georgia State University
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"Will serve as an excellent resource for serious history students and instructors, who will find this an invaluable class resource. Recommended." - Julie Biando Edwards, Library Journal "This book is comprehensive and is required reading for anyone interested in teaching a course on slavery in the Americas...essential... The editors and contributors are to be applauded for successfully piecing together the many different threads of a most complex and interesting field." - David Ryden, History: Reviews of New Books "This handbook provides a very valuable introduction to trends in the recent historiography on slavery in the Americas. The readers of the volume (as well as its editors) have been well
served by the craftsmanship and erudition of those who have contributed to it." - David Richardson, H-Soz-u-Kult
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Robert L. Paquette and Mark M. Smith: Introduction: Slavery in the Americas
Part I: Places
1: Francisco Scarano: Spanish Caribbean (Puerto Rico and Spanish Hispaniola)
2: K. Russell Lohse: Mexico and Central America
3: Peter Blanchard: Spanish South American Mainland
4: Matt D. Childs and Manuel Barcia Paz: Cuba
5: Robert W. Slenes: Brazil
6: Trevor Burnard: British West Indies and Bermuda
7: Henk den Heijer: Dutch Caribbean
8: John Garrigus: French Caribbean
9: Daniel C. Littlefield: United States (Colonial and Revolutionary)
10: Jeff Forret: United States (Early Republic and Antebellum)
Part II: Themes, Methods, and Sources
11: Stephen Behrendt: The Transatlantic Slave Trade
12: John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard: The Origins of Slavery in the Americas
13: Kenneth F. Kiple: Biology and African Slavery
14: Allan Gallay: Indian Slavery
15: Timothy Lockley: Race and Slavery
16: Jonathan Daniel Wells: Class and Slavery
17: Douglas Ambrose: Slavery and Religion
18: Jeffrey Robert Young: Proslavery Ideology
19: Paul Finkelman: United States Slave Law
20: Douglas R. Egerton: Slave Resistance
21: Kevin Dawson: Slave Culture
22: Peter Coclanis: The Economics of Slavery
23: Kirsten Wood: Gender and Slavery
24: Eugene D. Genovese and Douglas Ambrose: Masters
25: John Stauffer: Abolition and Antislavery
26: Christopher Schmidt-Nowara: Emancipation
27: Stewart R. King: Slavery and the Haitian Revolution
28: Michael Tadman: Internal Slave Trades
29: Richard H. Steckel: The Demography of Slavery
30: Enrico Dal Lago: Comparative Slavery
31: Kathleen Hilliard: Finding Slave Voices
32: Theresa Singleton: Archaeology and Slavery
Stanley L. Engerman: Epilogue: Post-Emancipation Adjustments
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