Specters of the Atlantic [electronic resource] : finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history / Ian Baucom.
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TextPublication details: Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.ISBN: - 0822335581 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0822335964 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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- Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 18th century
- Slave trade -- America -- History -- 18th century
- Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Abolitionists -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Trials -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century
- Capitalism -- Social aspects -- History -- 18th century
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- HT1162 .B38 2005
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [336]-376) and index.
"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.
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