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847281
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Baucom, Ian,1967-
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Specters of the Atlantic : : finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history /\ Ian Baucom.
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| Publication Statement
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Durham :: Duke University Press,, 2005.
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1 online resource (x, 387 pages)
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0822387026
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: 1283021951
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: 6613021954
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: 9780822387022
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: 9781283021951
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: 9786613021953
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0822335581
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0822335964
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9780822335580
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9780822335962
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-376) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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Zong (Ship)
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Zong (Navire)
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Zong (Ship)
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Abolitionists-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
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Antislavery movements-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
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Capitalism-- Social aspects-- 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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Slave trade-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
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Trials-- Great Britain-- History-- 18th century.
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Abolitionnistes-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire-- 18e siècle.
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Capitalisme-- Aspect social-- Histoire-- 18e siècle.
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Esclaves-- Commerce-- Afrique-- Histoire-- 18e siècle.
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Esclaves-- Commerce-- Amérique-- Histoire-- 18e siècle.
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Esclaves-- Commerce-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire-- 18e siècle.
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Mouvements antiesclavagistes-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire-- 18e siècle.
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Procès-- Grande-Bretagne-- Histoire-- 18e siècle.
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Abolitionismus
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Abolitionists.
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Antislavery movements.
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Capitalism-- Social aspects.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics Theory
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Sklavenhandel
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Slave trade.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Slavery.
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Spekulation
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Trials.
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Kapitalisme.
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Processen (rechtspraak)
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Slavenhandel.
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Africa.
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America.
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Atlantischer Raum
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Great Britain.
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Großbritannien
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Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.3/62
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HT1162.B38 2005
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15.70bcl
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