American Mirror (eBook)

The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation

Roberto Saba (Autor)

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2021
392 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20535-9 (ISBN)

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How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the largest slave societies in the Western world. The former enslaved approximately four million people, the latter nearly two million. Slavery was integral to the production of agricultural commodities for the global market, and governing elites feared the system's demise would ruin their countries. Yet, when slavery ended in the United States and Brazil, in 1865 and 1888 respectively, what resulted was immediate and continuous economic progress. In American Mirror, Roberto Saba investigates how American and Brazilian reformers worked together to ensure that slave emancipation would advance the interests of capital.Saba explores the methods through which antislavery reformers fostered capitalist development in a transnational context. From the 1850s to the 1880s, this coalition of Americans and Brazilians-which included diplomats, engineers, entrepreneurs, journalists, merchants, missionaries, planters, politicians, scientists, and students, among others-consolidated wage labor as the dominant production system in their countries. These reformers were not romantic humanitarians, but cosmopolitan modernizers who worked together to promote labor-saving machinery, new transportation technology, scientific management, and technical education. They successfully used such innovations to improve production and increase trade.Challenging commonly held ideas about slavery and its demise in the Western Hemisphere, American Mirror illustrates the crucial role of slave emancipation in the making of capitalism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 23.11.2021
• Reihe/Serie: America in the World
• Zusatzinfo: 17 b/w illus. 3 tables. 1 map.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • Advertising • Advocacy • African diaspora • Agrarian Crossings • Agriculture • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Agriculture in Brazil • Alabama in Africa • Alagoas • American capital • American Civil War • American Colonization Society • americanization • Americans in Brazil • Andrew Zimmerman • anti-British • Anti-British sentiment • anti-confederate • Antithesis • behalf • Between Two Empires • birth rate • Black Codes (United States) • Boom And Bust Cycle • Bourgeoisie • Brazilian liberals • brazilians • Bronze Age • Brotas • bureaucrat • Campinas • Capitalism • Capitalism and Slavery • Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory) • Chincha Islands • Citizenship • Civil and Political Rights • Civilization • civil marriage • Civil War • Coffee • Colonization • Commodity • Competition • corporate capitalism • Cosmopolitanism • cowardice • Cyrus West Field • Dawn Johnsen • Debtor • Deliberation • Despot (court title) • despotism • developed country • Dissident • distrust • Dominican Republic • economic nationalism • economy • Eiichiro Azuma • Embarrassment • Emerging Technologies • empire of cotton • Entrepreneurship • E. P. Thompson • Eric Hobsbawm • expansionism • Expense • Factory • Fazenda • First-rate • Fishing • Foreign Relations • free labor • free republic • free society • Free Trade • Friedrich Engels • Fugitive Slave Clause • Gilded Age • Government • Grain Elevator • Great Power • Harper's Weekly • Hendrick Kraay • Hinterland • His Family • Historiography • horticulture • Hospitality • Housewife • Human Migration • hypocrisy • Ideology • Immigration • Impediment (canon law) • impunity • Institution • Intensive Farming • invisibility • Irrationality • Jack Balkin • Joaquim Nabuco • john greenleaf whittier • Julie Greene • Karl Marx • Knights of the Golden Circle • laborer • Labour Power • Latifundium • Latin America • Law School • Leather • Legislator • Legislature • Letter of introduction • Logging • Long Depression • Louis Agassiz • Machado de Assis • Manufacturing • Martius (month) • Mass meeting • Matthew Fontaine Maury • Mayor of San Francisco • medal • militarization • Mode of Production • modern history • Modernity • Modernization • Mrs. • natural resource • New York City • New York Courier and Enquirer • Oeste Paulista • Old World • Opportunism • Oppression • overproduction • Paraguayan War • Persona non Grata • plantation • Plantation era • Plantations in the American South • Political Economy • political revolution • Political System • Politician • Politics • Port of Rio de Janeiro • Power (international relations) • power politics • proletarianization • proslavery • Protestant missionaries • public lecture • Public sphere • Public works • Puppet state • Reactionary • Recession • reconstruction • Republicanism • salary • Science • scientific enterprise • Scientist • seeder • Self-determination • Self-reliance • Self-Sufficiency • separatism • serfdom • sewing machine • shared interest • shortage • skilled worker • Slaveholders • Slavery • Slavery in the United States • Smuggling • Social Class • Social Justice • Social Movement • Society of the United States • Soil • southern United States • State Government • steamship • stimulant • sucrose • Sven Beckert • syracuse university • Technology • Teresa Cribelli • The Canal Builders • The Great Transformation (book) • The Other Hand • Tore Olsson • transnational history • unfree labour • union army • United States • Uruguayans • Vegetable • wage labor • water supply • W. E. B. Du Bois • white southerners • William Thomas Stead • Working Class • World Government • World War II
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20535-3 / 0691205353
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20535-9 / 9780691205359