D Tomich

Biographic Data

ID13151
NAMED Tomich
GIVEN NAMESD
FAMILY NAMETomich
SIGNATURETOMICH D
AFFILIATIONSBinghamton University
ORCID0000-0001-6405-2473
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS48
TOTAL CITATIONS79
AUTHOR COUNT48
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • The slave plantation: Environment, history, and cycles of capital accumulation

    Open AccessD Tomich, Dale W TomichARTICLECultural Dynamics2025References: 4

    This article critiques the conceptual adequacy of the concepts anthroprocene, capitalocene, and plantationocene. In their place, it proposes an historical approach to the interrelated histories of capitalism, the plantation, slavery, and nature in the Americas from the perspective of commodity production. It treats plantations as historically specific combinations of land, slave labor, and productive technology. Plantations are formed and reforme…

  • Introduction: The Iberian Atlantic and the Making of the Modern World

    Open AccessD Tomich, Leonardo MarquesARTICLECulture & History Digital Journal2023References: 5

  • O Engenho de açúcar: André João Antonil and the Anatomy of the Seventeenth-Century Brazilian Slave Plantation

    Open AccessD TomichARTICLECulture & History Digital Journal2023References: 5

    Jesuit João André Antonil’s Cultura e Opulência do Brasil is perhaps the first comprehensive treatise on slave plantation agriculture in the Americas. However, it is neither a manual nor an economic analysis. Rather, it is a moral and ethical guide for the administration of a sugar mill. This article examines the concepts, categories of thought, structures of meaning, and interpretive strategies through which Antonil comprehends the process of co…

  • Text, image and object: Analysing plantation landscapes

    Open AccessD TomichBOOKCultural Dynamics2022Cited by: 2References: 3

    This article examines the plantation as a landscape, focusing on the interplay of text, image, and object in shaping its historical and contemporary representations. It argues that plantation landscapes are not simply physical spaces but complex cultural constructs, reflecting power dynamics, social relations, and economic systems. The analysis draws on examples from different geographical contexts and historical periods, highlighting the ways in…

  • Capitalism in Slavery, Slavery in Capitalism: Original Accumulation, Slave Rent, and the Formation of the World Market

    D Tomich, Dale W TomichARTICLEComparativ2021

    Der Beitrag untersucht das Verhältnis von Kapitalismus und Sklaverei, indem er die Rolle der Sklaverei bei der Entstehung der kapitalistischen Weltwirtschaft seit dem 16. Jahrhundert neu interpretiert. Durch die Unterscheidung zwischen der Marx’schen Theorie des Kapitals und der Geschichte der kapitalistischen Entwicklung wird der historische Kapitalismus als ein globales System konstruiert, das vielfältige Formen der gesellschaftlichen Arbeit um…

  • The Trade in the Living: The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries

    Michael Wolfers, D Tomich et al.BOOKThe Trade in the Living2018Cited by: 1

    Macro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil's emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era. The seventeenth-century missionary and diplomat Father Antônio Vieira once observed that Brazil was nourished, animated, sustained, served, and conserved by the "sad blood" of the "black and unfortunate souls" imported from Angola. In The Trade in t…

  • The Second Slavery and World Capitalism: A Perspective for Historical Inquiry

    Open AccessD TomichARTICLEInternational Review of Social…2018Cited by: 15References: 5

    The concept of the second slavery radically reinterprets the relation of slavery and capitalism by calling attention to the emergence of extensive new zones of slave commodity production in the US South, Cuba, and Brazil as part of nineteenth-century industrialization and world-economic expansion. This article examines the conceptual framework and methodological procedures that inform this interpretation. It reformulates the concept of the capita…

  • Christopher Schmidt-Nowara (1966-2015)

    D TomichARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2017

    Christopher Schmidt-Nowara passed away suddenly in Paris on June 27, 2015, while visiting his daughter. Only 48 years old, he had already established himself as a significant scholar of the Spanish Atlantic.Born in Boston, Chris was raised in New Mexico. There he was surrounded by the complex legacy of Spain's conquest and colonization of the Americas. His intellectual engagement with Spain and the Americas began as a child when he took a summer …

  • Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition: Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830-1848

    D Tomich, Dale W TomichBOOKSlavery in the circuit of sugar2016

    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, an…

  • Commodity Frontiers, Spatial Economy, and Technological Innovation in the Caribbean Sugar Industry, 1783–1878

    Open AccessD TomichCHAPTERCaribbean and the Atlantic World…2015

    Debate over the relationship between slavery and technology has a long history. Broadly speaking, two approaches to the question have been advanced. One school of thought has regarded slavery as an archaic, pre-capitalist system of production relations, and has emphasised the incapacity of slaves to utilise sophisticated technologies and the backwardness of planters. From this perspective, either slave relations suppress technological innovation,…

  • The Sugar Trade: Brazil, Portugal and the Netherlands (1595-1630), written by Daniel Strum

    Open AccessD TomichARTICLENew West Indian Guide / Nieuwe…2015

    2010 Odebrecht Historical Research Award-Clarival do Prado for contributions that address historiographical gaps in

  • Rethinking Bourgeois Revolutions: Transformations of the World-System, 1730-1840s

    Open AccessD TomichARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2012

    The appearance of Volume Four of Immanu el Wallerstein's The Modern World-System marks the completion of one of the major scholarly contributions of the past fifty years. The University of California Press is to be congratulated for making the complete work available, especially to a younger gen eration of graduate students and scholars. The Modern World-System is an ambitious if not audacious work that is at once complex and demanding. It attemp…

  • A Ordem do Tempo Histórico: A Longue Durée e a Micro-História

    Open AccessD TomichARTICLEAlmanack2011Cited by: 7References: 2

    Este artigo aborda a concepção de temporalidade plural de Fernand Braudel e, sobretudo, a longue durée como instrumento prático para a pesquisa histórica. Por meio da análise do trabalho de Erenst Labrousse, colega de Braudel, enfatiza os pressupostos teóricos e metodológicos que permeiam a prática da história serial como meio para reconstrução dessas "temporalidades estruturais". Por fim, trata da preocupação com o episódico e com o curto prazo …

  • Empirical Futures: Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz

    D TomichARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2011

    In this book a group of distinguished anthropologists and historians respond to the work of Sidney Mintz. Mintz’s lifetime of engagement with the Caribbean pioneered new perspectives and approaches not only to the Caribbean but also to anthropology and the social sciences more broadly. His work combines anthropological fieldwork, especially in Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and Haiti, with theoretical reflection about the societies with which he is engage…

  • History of the Caribbean: Plantations, Trade, and War in the Atlantic World

    D TomichARTICLEHispanic American Historical Review2010

    In this clearly written and comprehensive narrative, Frank Moya Pons provides an alternative to fragmented national histories and monographic local approaches to the Caribbean by presenting an encompassing narrative that treats the region as a unified whole. He is particularly successful in integrating the histories of the Hispanic and non-His-panic Caribbean, which all too often fall into separate historiographies. Sugar provides the thread that…

  • "Pensando o "impensável: Victor Schoelcher e o Haiti

    Open AccessD TomichARTICLEMana2009Cited by: 2References: 2

    Por intermédio da análise do relato do abolicionista francês Victor Schoelcher sobre o Haiti, publicado em 1843, este artigo questiona a interpretação do antropólogo Rolph Trouillot sobre o caráter "impensável" da Revolução Haitiana. Ao mesmo tempo em que esta última tem sido ignorada, distorcida ou tratada com incompreensão pelo Ocidente, o uso da noção de "impensável" para interpretar sua recepção contribui para outra forma de incompreensão, ao…

  • Fields of Toil

    D TomichARTICLEHistory Workshop Journal2006

    Journal Article Fields of Toil Get access Richard Steven Street, Beasts of the Field: a Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769–1913, Stanford University Press, 2004, 904 pp.; hbk $75.00, pbk $31.95, ISBN 0-8047-3880-7. Richard Steven Street, Photographing Farmworkers in California, forward by Kevin Starr, Stanford University Press, 2004; 329 pp.; hbk $39.95, ISBN 0-8047-4092-5. Dale Tomich Dale Tomich Search for other works by this aut…

  • Through the Prism of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy

    D Tomich, Dale W TomichBOOKThrough the Prism of Slavery2004

    In this thoughtful book, Dale W. Tomich explores the contested relationship between slavery and capitalism. Tracing slavery's integral role in the formation of a capitalist world economy, he 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, Tomich develops an original conceptual framework for answering theoretical and historica…

  • Atlantic History and World Economy: Concepts and Constructions

    D Tomich, ProtoSociology ProjectARTICLEProtoSociology2004Cited by: 2

  • Through the Prism of Slavery: Labor, Capital, and World Economy

    D Tomich, Dale W TomichBOOKThrough the Prism of Slavery2003

    In this thoughtful book, Dale W. Tomich explores the contested relationship between slavery and capitalism. Tracing slavery's integral role in the formation of a capitalist world economy, he 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, Tomich develops an original conceptual framework for answering theoretical and historica…

  • A riqueza do império: Francisco Arango y Parreño, economia política e a segunda escravidão em Cuba

    Open AccessD TomichARTICLERevista de História2003Cited by: 1

    Neste artigo examino o modo como Francisco Arango y Parreño, estadista, senhor de engenho e porta-voz da elite cubana utilizou a Economia Política das Luzes a fim de reconceitualizar a riqueza nacional, a escravidão, e o mercado livre para estabelecer o fundamento teórico do domínio cubano no mercado mundial do açúcar. Demonstro que as teses pró-escravistas de Arango e a crítica de Adam Smith ao escravismo constituem aspectos contraditórios da Ec…

  • The Wealth of Empire: Francisco Arango y Parreño, Political Economy, and the Second Slavery in Cuba

    Open AccessD TomichARTICLEComparative Studies in Society…2003Cited by: 2

    Planter, statesman, and economic reformer Francisco Arango y Parreño (1765-1837) was the spokesman for Havana's emergent planter elite and was also among the major architects of Cuba's sugar boom during the first half of the nineteenth century. In 1792, in the midst of the slave insurrection in Saint Domingue, Arango, Apoderado General of the Havana ayuntamiento, addressed a series of memorials to the Spanish Crown culminating in Discurso sobre l…

  • Spaces of Slavery, Times of Freedom: Rethinking Caribbean History in World Perspective

    D TomichARTICLEComparative Studies of South Asia…1997Cited by: 1References: 3

    Research Article| May 01 1997 Spaces of Slavery, Times of Freedom: Rethinking Caribbean History in World Perspective Dale Tomich Dale Tomich Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (1): 67–80. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-17-1-67 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitt…

  • The Economy and Material Culture of Slaves: Goods and Chattels on the Sugar Plantations of Jamaica and Louisiana

    D Tomich, Roderick A McdonaldARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1995

  • Small Islands and Huge Comparisons: Caribbean Plantations, Historical Unevenness, and Capitalist Modernity

    D TomichARTICLESocial Science History1994Cited by: 7