| Description |
1 online resource (x, 387 pages) |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection.
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"Now being" : slavery, speculation, and the measure of our time -- Liverpool, a capital of the long twentieth century -- "Subject $" : or, the "type" of the modern -- "Madam death! madam death!" : credit, insurance, and the Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation -- "Signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognostikon" : modernity and the truth event -- "Please decide" : the singular and the speculative -- Specters of the Atlantic : slavery and the witness -- Frontispiece : testimony, rights, and the state of exception -- The view from the window : sympathy, melancholy, and the problem of "humanity" -- The fact of history : on cosmopolitan interestedness -- The imaginary resentment of the dead : a theory of melancholy sentiment -- "To tumble into it, and gasp for breath as we go down" : the idea of suffering -- And the case of liberal cosmopolitanism -- This/such, for instance : the witness against "history" -- "The sea is history" -- "The sea is history" : on temporal accumulation |
| Summary |
Cultural and literary study of the 1781 massacre on the slaveship Zong for the insurance money and the aftereffects of the event on the development of modernity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-376) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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| Subject |
Zong (Ship)
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| SUBJECT |
Zong (Ship) fast (OCoLC)fst01613371 |
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Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 18th century
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Slave trade -- America -- History -- 18th century
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Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Abolitionists -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Trials -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
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Capitalism -- Social aspects -- History -- 18th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory.
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Abolitionists.
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Antislavery movements.
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Abolitionismus
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Sklavenhandel
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Spekulation Wirtschaft
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Capitalism -- Social aspects.
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Slavenhandel.
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Slave trade.
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Processen (rechtspraak)
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Trials.
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Kapitalisme.
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Africa.
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America.
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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Atlantischer Raum
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Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822387022 |
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0822387026 |
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1283021951 |
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9781283021951 |
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9786613021953 |
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6613021954 |
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