The Antislavery debate :
capitalism and abolitionism as a problem in historical interpretation /
edited and with an introduction by Thomas Bender ; with essays by John Ashworth, David Brion Davis, and Thomas L. Haskell.
Description
- Language(s)
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English
- Published
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992.
- Summary
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Publisher description: This volume brings together one of the most provocative debates among historians in recent years. The center of controversy is the emergence of the antislavery movement in the United States and Britain and the relation of capitalism to this development. The essays delve beyond these issues, however, to raise a deeper question of historical interpretation: What are the relations between consciousness, moral action, and social change? The debate illustrates that concepts common in historical practice are not so stable as we have thought them to be. It is about concepts as much as evidence, about the need for clarity in using the tools of contemporary historical practice.
- Physical Description
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x, 325 p. ;
24 cm.
- ISBN
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0520077792 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520066391 (cloth : alk. paper)
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