The Decline Thesis of British Slavery since Econocide (1986)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23740901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Seymour Drescher (University of Pittsburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Pages | 87-115 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | From Slavery to Freedom (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-14876-9_4 |
| OpenAlex | W2097209265 |
| ISBN | 9781349148769 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 14 |
Appearing in 1944, Capitalism and Slavery was a comprehensive attempt to explain the rise and fall of British colonial slavery in relation to the evolution of European world-capitalism. 1 In dealing with the final stages of slavery, Eric Williams developed a two-pronged argument linking its demise to changes in the British imperial economy. The first prong related to changes in the structure of economic relationships between the metropolis and the colonies. Down to the American Revolutionary War, concluded Williams, British slavery, including the Atlantic slave trade, was a growing and complementary element of the imperial economy. The slave system provided an ever-increasing amount of tropical staples, a protected market for British manufactures, and a source of British metropolitan capital. In a number of ways, the slave economy thus helped to fuel the industrial revolution. Williams’ second prong related to political economy, to an economic ideology designated as mercantilism. It sustained the multiple linkages of the system by assuming the need for a protected imperial zone in which British manufactures, trade and maritime skills could develop. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Ancient history · Archaeology · Capital (architecture) · Capitalism · Colonialism · Demise · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Element (criminal law) · Ideology · Industrial Revolution · Mercantilism · Metropolitan area · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Australian History and Society · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law
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Reckoning With Williams
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Slavery
Circe's pigs
Capitalism and slavery after fifty years
Interpreting the Bicentenary in Britain
Alternative husbandry
The transition from slavery to free wage Labour in the Caribbean, 1780–1890
The British Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade 1650-1775
The Politics of Slavery
Capitalism and Slavery
The economy of British America, 1607-1789
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Economic History Review
Williams and Drescher
The Rum Trade and the Balance of Payments of the Thirteen Continental Colonies, 1650–1775
The British government and the Saint Domingue slave revolt,1791—1793
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Measuring the Atlantic Slave Trade
The Volume of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Capitalism, Slavery and Ideology
The Political Economy of British Expansion Overseas, 1750-1914
The Profitability of Sugar Planting in the British West Indies, 1650-1834
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 1972 - 2010 (39) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |