Sugar Island Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment: The Political Economy of the Caribbean World

by Arthur L. Stinchcombe

Plantations, especially sugar plantations, created slave societies and a racism persisting well into post-slavery periods: so runs a familiar argument that has been used to explain the sweep of Caribbean history. Here one of the most eminent scholars of modern social theory applies this assertion to a comparative study of most Caribbean islands from the time of the American Revolution to the Spanish American War. Arthur Stinchcombe uses insights from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691029954
• ISBN13: 9780691029955
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 10.0"