Building the Atlantic Empires: Unfree Labor and Imperial States in the Political Economy of Capitalism, ca. 1500–1914

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Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

1: The Sinews of Spain’s American Empire: Forced Labor in Cuba from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

2: Indian Freedom and Indian Slavery in the Portuguese Amazon (1640–1755)

3: Constructing the Atlantic’s Boundaries: Forced and Coerced Labor on Imperial Fortifications in Colonial Florida

4: “For the Reputation and Respectability of the State”: Trade, the Imperial State, Unfree Labor, and Empire in the Dutch Atlantic

5: The Unfree Origins of English Empire-Building in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic

6: Indenture, Transportation, and Spiriting: Seventeenth Century English Penal Policy and ‘Superfluous’ Populations

7: Citizens of the Empire? Indentured Labor, Global Capitalism and the Limits of French Republicanism in Colonial Guadeloupe

Conclusion

Selected Bibliography

Index