Reconstructing the landscapes of slavery : a visual history of the plantation in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world /
Tomich, Dale W., 1946-
Reconstructing the landscapes of slavery : a visual history of the plantation in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world / Dale W. Tomich, Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Carlos Venegas Fornias. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Map, Table, and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Cotton, Sugar, Coffee, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century Slave Plantations -- PART I. Making Landscapes: New Atlantic Commodity Frontiers -- 1. The Lower Mississippi Valley Cotton Frontier -- 2. The Cuban Sugar Frontier -- 3. The Brazilian Coffee Frontier -- PART II. Spatial Economies and Plantation Landscapes -- 4. The Lower Mississippi Valley Cotton Plantation -- 5. The Cuban Ingenio -- 6. The Brazilian Coffee Fazenda -- CONCLUSION. Geometries of Exploitation -- Notes
"Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes-from cotton fields in the Lower Mississippi Valley to sugar plantations in western Cuba and coffee plantations in Brazil's Paraíba Valley-demonstrate how the restructuring of the capitalist world economy led to the formation of new zones of commodity production. By extension, these environments radically transformed slave labor and the role such labor played in the expansion of the global economy"--
1469663147 (electronic book) 9781469663142 (electronic bk.) (hardcover) (paperback ; alkaline paper)
40030495235
22573/ctv1j5q7tx JSTOR
1800-1899
Plantations--History--Mississippi River Valley--19th century.
Plantations--History--Cuba--19th century.
Plantations--History--Brazil--Paraibuna River Valley--19th century.
Plantations--Mississippi River Valley--Pictorial works.
Plantations--Cuba--Pictorial works.
Plantations--Brazil--Paraibuna River Valley--Pictorial works.
Slavery--Economic aspects--Mississippi River Valley.
Slavery--Economic aspects--Cuba.
Slavery--Economic aspects--Brazil--Paraibuna River Valley.
Plantations--Histoire--Mississippi, Vallée du--19e siècle.
Plantations--Histoire--Brésil--Paraibuna, Vallée de la (Minas Gerais)--19e siècle.
Plantations--Mississippi, Vallée du--Ouvrages illustrés.
Plantations--Brésil--Paraibuna, Vallée de la (Minas Gerais)--Ouvrages illustrés.
HISTORY--General.--Latin America
Slavery--Economic aspects.
Plantations.
Mississippi River Valley.
Cuba.
Brazil--Paraibuna River Valley.
Electronic books.
Pictorial works.
History.
HD1471.A3 / T66 2021
306.3/49
Reconstructing the landscapes of slavery : a visual history of the plantation in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world / Dale W. Tomich, Rafael de Bivar Marquese, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Carlos Venegas Fornias. - 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Map, Table, and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Cotton, Sugar, Coffee, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century Slave Plantations -- PART I. Making Landscapes: New Atlantic Commodity Frontiers -- 1. The Lower Mississippi Valley Cotton Frontier -- 2. The Cuban Sugar Frontier -- 3. The Brazilian Coffee Frontier -- PART II. Spatial Economies and Plantation Landscapes -- 4. The Lower Mississippi Valley Cotton Plantation -- 5. The Cuban Ingenio -- 6. The Brazilian Coffee Fazenda -- CONCLUSION. Geometries of Exploitation -- Notes
"Assessing a unique collection of more than eighty images, this innovative study of visual culture reveals the productive organization of plantation landscapes in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. These landscapes-from cotton fields in the Lower Mississippi Valley to sugar plantations in western Cuba and coffee plantations in Brazil's Paraíba Valley-demonstrate how the restructuring of the capitalist world economy led to the formation of new zones of commodity production. By extension, these environments radically transformed slave labor and the role such labor played in the expansion of the global economy"--
1469663147 (electronic book) 9781469663142 (electronic bk.) (hardcover) (paperback ; alkaline paper)
40030495235
22573/ctv1j5q7tx JSTOR
1800-1899
Plantations--History--Mississippi River Valley--19th century.
Plantations--History--Cuba--19th century.
Plantations--History--Brazil--Paraibuna River Valley--19th century.
Plantations--Mississippi River Valley--Pictorial works.
Plantations--Cuba--Pictorial works.
Plantations--Brazil--Paraibuna River Valley--Pictorial works.
Slavery--Economic aspects--Mississippi River Valley.
Slavery--Economic aspects--Cuba.
Slavery--Economic aspects--Brazil--Paraibuna River Valley.
Plantations--Histoire--Mississippi, Vallée du--19e siècle.
Plantations--Histoire--Brésil--Paraibuna, Vallée de la (Minas Gerais)--19e siècle.
Plantations--Mississippi, Vallée du--Ouvrages illustrés.
Plantations--Brésil--Paraibuna, Vallée de la (Minas Gerais)--Ouvrages illustrés.
HISTORY--General.--Latin America
Slavery--Economic aspects.
Plantations.
Mississippi River Valley.
Cuba.
Brazil--Paraibuna River Valley.
Electronic books.
Pictorial works.
History.
HD1471.A3 / T66 2021
306.3/49