Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition: Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830-1848 (SUNY Series, Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical Social Science)

Traces The Historical Development Of Slave Labor And Plantation Agriculture In Nineteenth-century Martinique. A Classic Text Long Out Of Print, Slavery In The Circuit Of Sugar Traces The Historical Development Of Slave Labor And Plantation Agriculture In Martinique During The Period Immediately Preceding Slave Emancipation In 1848. Interpreting These Events Against The Broader Background Of The World-economy, Dale W. Tomich Analyzes The Importance Of Topics Such As British Hegemony In The Nineteenth Century, Related Developments Of The French Economy, And Competition From European Beet Sugar Producers. He Shows How Slaves’ Adaptation—and Resistance—to Changing Working Conditions Transformed The Plantation Labor Regime And The Very Character Of Slavery Itself. Based On Archival Sources In France And Martinique, Slavery In The Circuit Of Sugar Offers A Vivid Reconstruction Of The Complex And Contradictory Interrelations Among The World Market, The Material Processes Of Sugar Production, And The Social Relations Of Slavery. In This Second Edition, Tomich Includes A New Introduction In Which He Offers An Explicit Discussion Of The Methodological And Theoretical Issues Entailed In Developing And Extending The World-systems Perspective And Clarifies The Importance Of The Approach For The Study Of Particular Histories. La 4e de couverture indique : "A classic text long out of print, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar traces the historical development of slave labor and plantation agriculture in Martinique during the period immediately preceding slave emancipation in 1848. Interpreting these events against the broader background of the world-economy, Dale W. Tomich analyzes the importance of topics such as British hegemony in the nineteenth century, related developments of the French economy, and competition from European beet sugar producers. He shows how slaves' adaptation-and resistance-to changing working conditions transformed the plantation labor regime and the very character of slavery itself. Based on archival sources in France and Martinique, Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar offers a vivid reconstruction of the complex and contradictory interrelations among the world market, the material processes of sugar production, and the social relations of slavery. In this second edition, Tomich includes a new introduction in which he offers an explicit discussion of the methodological and theoretical issues entailed in developing and extending the world-systems perspective and clarifies the importance of the approach for the study of particular histories." Chapter 5 The Habitation Sucrière: Cell Unit of Colonial Production -- The Cultivation of Sugar Cane -- The Mill -- The Refinery -- Making Sugar -- Chapter 6 Obstacles to Innovation -- Sugar, Slavery, and Modern Science -- The Usine Centrale: A Blocked Transition -- Chapter 7 A Calculated and Calculating System: The Dialectic of Slave Labor -- The Hands and Feet of the Planter -- Rhythms of Work: Economy of Time -- Domination, Hierarchy, and Labor Discipline -- Integration, Autonomy, and Resistance -- Chapter 8 The Other Face of Slave Labor: Provision Grounds and Internal Marketing Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the First Edition: Sugar, Slavery, and Capitalism -- Introduction to the Second Edition: The Capitalist World-Economy as a Small Island -- Chapter 1 Sugar and Slavery in an Age of Global Transformation, 1791-1848 -- The Destruction of a Sugar Empire -- The Emergence of British Hegemony and the Reintegration of the World Sugar Market, 1815-1848 -- Chapter 2 The Contradictions of Protectionism: Colonial Policy and the French Sugar Market, 1804-1848 Reconstruction of the French Colonial Empire -- From Exclusif Mitigé to Pacte Colonial, 1814-1826 -- The Abolition of the Slave Trade -- Beet Sugar Versus Cane Sugar, 1826-1848 -- Chapter 3 The Local Face of World Process -- Land, Labor, and Sugar: The Expansion of Monoculture -- Anatomy of a Sugar Island -- The Limits of Agricultural Expansion -- Credit, Debt, and Crisis -- Inalienable Property -- Merchants and Planters -- Chapter 4 Sugar and Slavery: Forces and Relations of Production -- The Social Requirements of Sugar Production -- The Cooperative Force of Slave Labor Sugar and slavery in an age of global transformation, 1791-1848 The contradictions of protectionism : colonial policy and the French sugar market, 1804-1848 The local face of world process Sugar and slavery : forces and relations of production The habitation sucrière : cell unit of colonial production Obstacles to innovation A calculated and calculating system : the dialectic of slave labor The other face of slave labor : provision grounds and internal marketing Conclusion the global in the local : world-economy, sugar, and the crisis of plantation slavery in Martinique. Slavery and Subsistence -- The Self-Appropriation of the Appropriated -- The Fruits of Their Labor -- Conclusion: The Global in the Local: World-Economy, Sugar, and the Crisis of Plantation Slavery in Martinique -- Appendix 1 Estimated Volume of the Slave Trade to Martinique, 1814-1831 -- Appendix 2 Slave Prices by Age and Occupation, 1825-1839 -- Period 1: 1825-1829 -- Period 2: 1830-1834 -- Period 3: 1835-1839 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Primary Sources -- Official Publications -- Books, Pamphlets, and Articles -- Selected Secondary Sources -- Index