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Capitalism and antislavery : British mobilization in comparative perspective : the second Anstey memorial lectures in the University of Kent at Canterbury, 1984 by Seymour Drescher is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Three hundred years ago Britain was what she is again, a mid-sized island off the coast of Eurasia. Between then and now she became the centre of a world economy. And just midway upon this imperial passage the people of the Empire, free Britons and colonial slaves, secured the destruction of slavery and hastened its demise throughout the world. Those who were part of Britain's Atlantic economy but free of direct economic dependency were the most effective agents in that process. The great novelt
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- Author
- Seymour Drescher
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781349070022
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Political Science, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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