| Description |
x, 387 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-376) and index. |
| Contents |
"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 |
Ian Baucom presents a study of the 1781 massacre of 133 slaves on the slaveship Zong for the insurance money and the after-effects of the event on the development of modernity. Baucom insists that this is not just a past atrocity but is present within the future we now inhabit. |
| Subject |
Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Slave trade. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Slave trade -- Africa -- History -- 18th century.
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Africa. |
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Slave trade -- America -- History -- 18th century.
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America. |
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Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Antislavery movements. |
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Abolitionists -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Abolitionists. |
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Zong (Ship)
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Zong (Ship) |
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Trials -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Trials. |
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Capitalism -- Social aspects -- History -- 18th century.
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Capitalism -- Social aspects. |
| Chronological Term |
1700 - 1799 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Baucom, Ian, 1967- Specters of the Atlantic. Durham : Duke University Press, 2005 (OCoLC)654207553 |
| ISBN |
0822335964 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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0822335581 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780822335580 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780822335962 (paperback : alkaline paper) |
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