Reconstructing the landscapes of slavery : a visual history of the plantation in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world /
"Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes-from cotton fields in the Lower Mississippi Valley to sugar plantations in w...
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Authors / Creators: | , , , |
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Other Authors / Creators: | Funes Monzote, Reinaldo, 1969- author. Marquese, Rafael de Bivar, 1972- author. Venegas Fornias, Carlos, 1946- author. |
Format: | eBook Electronic |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2021. |
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Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Map, Table, and Figures
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION. Cotton, Sugar, Coffee, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century Slave Plantations
- PART I. Making Landscapes: New Atlantic Commodity Frontiers
- 1. The Lower Mississippi Valley Cotton Frontier
- 2. The Cuban Sugar Frontier
- 3. The Brazilian Coffee Frontier
- PART II. Spatial Economies and Plantation Landscapes
- 4. The Lower Mississippi Valley Cotton Plantation
- 5. The Cuban Ingenio
- 6. The Brazilian Coffee Fazenda
- CONCLUSION. Geometries of Exploitation
- Notes