Ouça e leia

Entre em um mundo infinito de histórias

  • Ler e ouvir tanto quanto você quiser
  • Com mais de 500.000 títulos
  • Títulos exclusivos + Storytel Originals
  • 7 dias de teste gratuito, depois R$19,90/mês
  • Fácil de cancelar a qualquer momento
Assine agora
br bdp devices

Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development

14 Avaliações

3.9

Duração
13H 49min
Idiomas
Inglês
Format
Categoria

História

During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world’s most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage.

This was no mere coincidence. Slavery’s Capitalism argues for slavery’s centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to editors Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, the issue is not whether slavery itself was or was not capitalist but, rather, the impossibility of understanding the nation’s spectacular pattern of economic development without situating slavery front and center.

American capitalism—renowned for its celebration of market competition, private property, and the self-made man—has its origins in an American slavery predicated on the abhorrent notion that human beings could be legally owned and compelled to work under force of violence.

Drawing on the expertise of sixteen scholars who are at the forefront of rewriting the history of American economic development, Slavery’s Capitalism identifies slavery as the primary force driving key innovations in entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, management, and political economy that are too often attributed to the so-called free market.

Approaching the study of slavery as the originating catalyst for the Industrial Revolution and modern capitalism casts new light on American credit markets, practices of offshore investment, and understandings of human capital. Rather than seeing slavery as outside the institutional structures of capitalism, the essayists recover slavery’s importance to the American economic past and prompt enduring questions about the relationship of market freedom to human freedom.

Contributors: Edward E. Baptist, Sven Beckert, Daina Ramey Berry, Kathryn Boodry, Alfred L. Brophy, Stephen Chambers, Eric Kimball, John Majewski, Bonnie Martin, Seth Rockman, Daniel B. Rood, Caitlin Rosenthal, Joshua D. Rothman, Calvin Schermerhorn, Andrew Shankman, Craig Steven Wilder.

© 2017 Blackstone Publishing (Audiolivros): 9781538404430

Data de lançamento

Audiolivros: 7 de março de 2017

Outros também usufruíram...

  1. Capital and Ideology Thomas Piketty
  2. Debt – Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years David Graeber
  3. The Value of Everything: Who Makes and Who Takes from the Real Economy Mariana Mazzucato
  4. The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization Peter Zeihan
  5. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man John Perkins
  6. Why We're Polarized Ezra Klein
  7. The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality Angus Deaton
  8. American Slavery: History in an Hour Kat Smutz
  9. A Brief History of Equality Thomas Piketty
  10. Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Robert D. Putnam
  11. Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism Quinn Slobodian
  12. Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration of Wealth & Power Noam Chomsky
  13. Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases Michael Chabon
  14. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Angela Y. Davis
  15. The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes Mark Skousen
  16. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty Patrick Radden Keefe
  17. Fear: Trump in the White House Bob Woodward
  18. The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America Nicholas Buccola
  19. The CIA as Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World Douglas Valentine
  20. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism 2nd Edition Bell Hooks
  21. The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of US Power Noam Chomsky
  22. Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization Branko Milanovic
  23. Why Marx Was Right: 2nd Edition Terry Eagleton
  24. The Souls of Black Folk W. E. B. Du Bois
  25. The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties Paul Collier
  26. Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism Richard D. Wolff