Through the Prism of Slavery: Labor, Capital and World Economy (World Social Change) - Hardcover

Tomich, Dale W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 074252938X ISBN 13: 9780742529380

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

This thoughtful book explores the contested relationship between slavery and capitalism. Tracing slavery's integral role in the formation of a capitalist world economy, Dale W. Tomich reinterprets the development of the world economy through the "prism of slavery." Through a sustained critique of Marxism, world-systems theory, and new economic history, the author develops an original conceptual framework for answering theoretical and historical questions about the nexus between slavery and the world economy.

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Review:

The thoughtful essays in this volume address the large-scale relationships of slavery and early modern capitalism.--David Northrup, Boston College "American Historical Review "

A provocatively illuminating book. This work opens new windows into the wider frameworks within which New World Slavery might be placed and better understood.--David Barry Gaspar, Duke University

Tomich's approach proves very fruitful. . . . Historical and comparative sociologists of all specializations will do well to come to terms with the many methodological and theoretical insights that Tomich offers throughout the book. . . . [Makes] outstanding contributions to historical sociology.--American Journal of Sociology

Not only a stimulating and rich use of the Atlantic history framework, but a muscular defense of the validity, even the necessity, of world history as a serious methodological project that can begin to breach [the] theoretical void. . . . Tomich brings a rigourous and exacting focus to the capitalism and slavery debate with particular attention to the role of the Caribbean as a test case for the uneven historical trajectory of modernity. . . . The essays . . . make a compelling case for using a world history framework that should be read not only by Atlanticists, but by any modern historian. . . . For students of international economy, Tomich's work provides a historical context for current inequalities and development trajectories, and actively challenges any two-dimensional view of the world.--Itinerario

Recommended.--CHOICE

I commend the author for a well written and clearly organized text. . . . Tomich makes the reader rethink the totality of the relations of capital as presented by Marx.--Contemporary Sociology

About the Author:

Dale W. Tomich is professor of sociology and history at Binghamton University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 074252938X
• ISBN 13: 9780742529380
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 228