TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Cul de Sac : patrimony, capitalism, and slavery in French Saint-Domingue
A1  - Cheney, Paul Burton, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Chicago ; London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5593134
AB  - In the eighteenth century, the Cul de Sac plain in Saint-Domingue, now Haiti, was a vast open-air workhouse of sugar plantations. This microhistory of one plantation owned by the Ferron de la Ferronnayses, a family of Breton nobles, draws on remarkable archival finds to show that despite the wealth such plantations produced, they operated in a context of social, political, and environmental fragility that left them weak and crisis prone. Focusing on correspondence between the Ferronnayses and their plantation managers, 'Cul de Sac' proposes that the Caribbean plantation system, with its reliance on factory-like production processes and highly integrated markets, was a particularly modern expression of eighteenth-century capitalism. But it rested on a foundation of economic and political traditionalism that stymied growth and adaptation. The result was a system heading toward collapse as planters, facing a series of larger crises in the French empire, vainly attempted to rein in the inherent violence and instability of the slave society they had built. In recovering the lost world of the French Antillean plantation, 'Cul de Sac' ultimately reveals how the capitalism of the plantation complex persisted not as a dynamic source of progress, but from the inertia of a degenerate system headed down an economic and ideological dead end.
SN  - 978-0-226-67925-9 pehmeäkantinen
SN  - 0-226-67925-X pehmeäkantinen
SN  - 978-0-226-07935-6 kovakantinen
KW  - 1700-luku
KW  - To 1804
KW  - sokeri
KW  - plantaasit
KW  - kapitalismi
KW  - historia
KW  - taloushistoria
KW  - Sugar plantations : Haiti : Cul-de-Sac Plain : History : 18th century.
KW  - Capitalism : Haiti : History : 18th century.
KW  - Plantation owners : Haiti.
KW  - Plantation overseers : Haiti.
KW  - Capitalism.
KW  - Economic history.
KW  - Plantation overseers.
KW  - Plantation owners.
KW  - Sugar plantations.
KW  - Haiti
KW  - Haiti : Economic conditions : 18th century.
KW  - Haiti : History : To 1791.
KW  - Haiti : History : Revolution, 1791-1804.
KW  - Haiti.
KW  - Haiti : Cul-de-Sac Plain.
ER  -