Books written by Seymour Drescher

The Abolition of Slavery and the Aftermath of Emancipation in Brazil

Rebecca Scott, Seymour Drescher, Hebe Maria Mattos de Castro, George Reid Andrews, Robert M. Levine, David Bushnell ... Portions of this essay began as a reflection on the work of Charles Gibson , presented at the 1986 American ...
Capitalism and Antislavery: British Mobilization in Comparative Perspective

Thompson, George A Speech on British Colonial Slavery . . . delivered at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Irwell Street, Salford. Manchester, 1832. Thompson, William An Inquiry into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth most ...
Dilemmas of Democracy: Tocqueville and Modernization

... George Probst, The Happy Republic: A Reader in Tocqueville's America (New York, 196a); Seymour Martin Lipset, Political Man (New York, i960); Edward T. Gargan, Alexis de Tocqueville: The Critical Years, 1848— 1851 (Washington, D.C, ...
Political Symbolism in Modern Europe: Essays in Honour of George L.Mosse

For a sharp criticism of the various anthropological approaches to symbolism, see Dan Sperber, Rethinking Symbolism (Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1975). 28. Nazism, p. 117: “We must finally discard unmediated and ...
The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 3, AD 1420-AD 1804

The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.
Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery

This book examines these dramatic expansions and contractions of the institution of slavery and the impact of violence, economics, and civil society in the ebb and flow of slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries.
Pathways from Slavery: British and Colonial Mobilizations in Global Perspective

He has changed the way in which we now look at abolitionism and has destroyed the linear explanation of economic decline. This books gathers together some of Drescher’s key essays in the field.
From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery

The entries in this volume focus upon the rise and fall of the Atlantic slave system in comparative perspective.
The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804–AD 2016

This volume covers the period from the independence of Haiti to modern perceptions of slavery by assembling twenty-eight original essays, each written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields.
A Historical Guide to World Slavery

Eminent scholars provide an overview of what we now know about slavery as an institution and way of life in cultures around the globe from ancient times to the present...
The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture after Slavery

What was the nature and impact of slave emancipation? Did the change in legal status conceal underlying continuities in American plantation societies? Was there a common postemancipation pattern of economic development?
The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, AD 1804-AD 2016

This volume covers the period from the independence of Haiti to modern perceptions of slavery by assembling twenty-eight original essays, each written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields.
Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery

This book examines these dramatic expansions and contractions of the institution of slavery and the impact of violence, economics, and civil society in the ebb and flow of slavery and antislavery during the last five centuries.
The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and Culture After Slavery

Annotation In this collection of essays, the outcome of an international conference on the dynamics of postslavery societies in the New World, held at the U. of Pittsburgh, August 1988, 11 scholars consider the aftermath of slavery, ...
Capitalism and Antislavery: British Popular Mobilization in Comparative Perspective

Capitalism and Antislavery: British Popular Mobilization in Comparative Perspective
The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor Versus Slavery in British Emancipation

In this work Drescher argues that the plan to end British slavery, rather than being a timely escape from a failing system, was, on the contrary, the crucial element in the greatest humanitarian achievement of all time.
Who Abolished Slavery?: Slave Revolts and AbolitionismA Debate with João Pedro Marques

The past half-century has produced a mass of information regarding slave resistance, ranging from individual acts of disobedience to massive uprisings.
Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition

Originally published in 1977, Drescher's work was instrumental in undermining the economic determinist interpretation of abolitionism that had dominated historical discourse for decades following World War II. For this second edition, which ...
The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation

In this work, Seymour Drescher argues that the plan to end British slavery, rather than being a timely escape from a failing system, was, on the contrary, the crucial element in the greatest humanitarian achievement of all time.