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- PublishedOn
- 2005-12-16
- Title
- Specters of the Atlantic: Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Phil
- ISBN
- 9780822335962
- EAN
- 9780822335962
- Book Title
- Specters of the Atlantic : Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, Law, Social Science, History
- Topic
- Slavery, Africa / General, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Europe / Great Britain / General, Semiotics & Theory, Legal History, Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)
- Item Weight
- 20 oz
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Number of Pages
- 400 Pages
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Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
0822335964
ISBN-13
9780822335962
eBay Product ID (ePID)
46744030
Product Key Features
Book Title
Specters of the Atlantic : Finance Capital, Slavery, and the Philosophy of History
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2005
Topic
Slavery, Africa / General, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Europe / Great Britain / General, Semiotics & Theory, Legal History, Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Law, Social Science, History
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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LCCN
2005-013577
Reviews
"A fantastically stimulating read, Specters of the Atlantic will be an extremely significant book. Its core strength is that it deals in such detail and in such an imaginative way with the primary texts associated with the case of the Zong . Nobody has read those texts in such a careful and stimulating way before, and nobody has used the case to construct such an ambitious historical schema."--Peter Hulme, author of Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877-1998, “A fantastically stimulating read, Specters of the Atlantic will be an extremely significant book. Its core strength is that it deals in such detail and in such an imaginative way with the primary texts associated with the case of the Zong . Nobody has read those texts in such a careful and stimulating way before, and nobody has used the case to construct such an ambitious historical schema.�-Peter Hulme, author of Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877–1998, "This work is a compelling study of the roles of slavery and abolition in the origins of finance capital in the British Atlantic empire. The work is an interdisciplinary tour de force, with superb scholarship on slavery, modernity, the Enlightenment, postmodernism and contemporary literary theory. It is one of the finest comparative studies of the philosophy of history and liberation struggles that I have read." --Charles C. Verharen, "interventions", This work is a compelling study of the roles of slavery and abolition in the origins of finance capital in the British Atlantic empire. The work is an interdisciplinary tour de force, with superb scholarship on slavery, modernity, the Enlightenment, postmodernism and contemporary literary theory. It is one of the finest comparative studies of the philosophy of history and liberation struggles that I have read., " Specters of the Atlantic is quite possibly the most provocative scholarly work I have read in a decade. I really cannot praise this book enough."--Mary Poovey, author of A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society "A fantastically stimulating read, Specters of the Atlantic will be an extremely significant book. Its core strength is that it deals in such detail and in such an imaginative way with the primary texts associated with the case of the Zong. Nobody has read those texts in such a careful and stimulating way before, and nobody has used the case to construct such an ambitious historical schema."--Peter Hulme, author of Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877-1998 "Some will find Baucom's esoteric language offputting, but the range and sharpness of his insights make it worth the effort."--THE INDEPENDENT, 30 November 2007, “ Specters of the Atlantic is quite possibly the most provocative scholarly work I have read in a decade. I really cannot praise this book enough.�-Mary Poovey, author of A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society, " Specters of the Atlantic is quite possibly the most provocative scholarly work I have read in a decade. I really cannot praise this book enough."--Mary Poovey, author of A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society, "Specters of the Atlantic is an impressively imaginative and erudite work. . . . [T]his challenging book richly rewards the reader who lingers in its midst." --W. Fitzhugh Brundage, "Business History Review", "A fantastically stimulating read, Specters of the Atlantic will be an extremely significant book. Its core strength is that it deals in such detail and in such an imaginative way with the primary texts associated with the case of the Zong . Nobody has read those texts in such a careful and stimulating way before, and nobody has used the case to construct such an ambitious historical schema."-Peter Hulme, author of Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and Their Visitors, 18771998, "Specters of the Atlantic is quite possibly the most provocative scholarly work I have read in a decade. I really cannot praise this book enough."-Mary Poovey, author of A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society"A fantastically stimulating read, Specters of the Atlantic will be an extremely significant book. Its core strength is that it deals in such detail and in such an imaginative way with the primary texts associated with the case of the Zong. Nobody has read those texts in such a careful and stimulating way before, and nobody has used the case to construct such an ambitious historical schema."-Peter Hulme, author of Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and Their Visitors, 1877-1998, " Specters of the Atlantic is quite possibly the most provocative scholarly work I have read in a decade. I really cannot praise this book enough."-Mary Poovey, author of A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society, "This is an ambitious book that attempts to historicize the "Zong" case while at the same time probing its deeper cultural meaning. It is also intellectually ambitious." --J.R. Oldfield, "The International History Review", "Specters of the Atlantic is a fine example of interdisciplinary scholarship. It draws on a wide array of sources--historical, literary and philosophical--to weave a text that compels and provokes." --Corey Capers, "Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History"
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
306.362
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments ix Part One: "Now Being": Slavery, Speculation, and the Measure of our Time 1. Liverpool, a Capital of the Long Twentieth Century 3 2. "Subject $"; or, the "Type" of the Modern 35 3. "Madam Death! Madam Death!":Credit, Insurance, and the Atlantic Cycle of Capital Accumulation 80 4." Signum Rememorativum, Demonstrativum, Prognostikon ": Modernity and the Truth Event 113 5."Please decide": The Singular and the Speculative 141 Part Two: Specters of the Atlantic: Slavery and the Witness 6. Frontispiece: Testimony, Rights, and the State of Exception 173 7. The View from the Window: Sympathy, Melancholy, and the Problem of "Humanity" 195 8. The Fact of History: On Cosmopolitan Interestedness 213 9. The Imaginary Resentment of the Dead: A Theory of Melancholy Sentiment 242 10. "To Tumble into It, and Gasp for Breath as We Go Down": The Idea of Suffering and the Case of Liberal Cosmopolitanism 265 11. This/Such, for Instance: The Witness against "History" 297 Part Three: "The Sea is History" 12. "The Sea is History": On Temporal Accumulation 309 Notes 335 Index 377
Synopsis
In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship "Zong" ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship's owners to file an insurance claim for their lost "cargo." Accounts of this horrific event quickly became a staple of abolitionist discourse on both sides of the Atlantic. Ian Baucom revisits, in unprecedented detail, the "Zong" atrocity, the ensuing court cases, reactions to the event and trials, and the business and social dealings of the Liverpool merchants who owned the ship. Drawing on the work of an astonishing array of literary and social theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Giovanni Arrighi, Jacques Derrida, and many others, he argues that the tragedy is central not only to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the political and cultural archives of the black Atlantic but also to the history of modern capital and ethics. To apprehend the "Zong "tragedy, Baucom suggests, is not to come to terms with an isolated atrocity but to encounter a logic of violence key to the unfolding history of Atlantic modernity. Baucom contends that the massacre and the trials that followed it bring to light an Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation based on speculative finance, an economic cycle that has not yet run its course. The extraordinarily abstract nature of today's finance capital is the late-eighteenth-century system intensified. Yet, as Baucom highlights, since the late 1700s, this rapacious speculative culture has had detractors. He traces the emergence and development of a counter-discourse he calls melancholy realism through abolitionist and human-rights texts, British romantic poetry, Scottish moral philosophy, and the work of late-twentieth-century literarytheorists. In revealing how the "Zong "tragedy resonates within contemporary financial systems and human-rights discourses, Baucom puts forth a deeply compelling, utterly original theory of history: one that insists that an eighteenth-century atrocity is not past but present within the future we now inhabit., Cultural and literary study of the 1781 massacre on the slaveship Zong for the insurance money and the aftereffects of the event on the development of modernity, In September 1781, the captain of the British slave ship Zong ordered 133 slaves thrown overboard, enabling the ship's owners to file an insurance claim for their lost "cargo." Accounts of this horrific event quickly became a staple of abolitionist discourse on both sides of the Atlantic. Ian Baucom revisits, in unprecedented detail, the Zong atrocity, the ensuing court cases, reactions to the event and trials, and the business and social dealings of the Liverpool merchants who owned the ship. Drawing on the work of an astonishing array of literary and social theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Giovanni Arrighi, Jacques Derrida, and many others, he argues that the tragedy is central not only to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the political and cultural archives of the black Atlantic but also to the history of modern capital and ethics. To apprehend the Zong tragedy, Baucom suggests, is not to come to terms with an isolated atrocity but to encounter a logic of violence key to the unfolding history of Atlantic modernity. Baucom contends that the massacre and the trials that followed it bring to light an Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation based on speculative finance, an economic cycle that has not yet run its course. The extraordinarily abstract nature of today's finance capital is the late-eighteenth-century system intensified. Yet, as Baucom highlights, since the late 1700s, this rapacious speculative culture has had detractors. He traces the emergence and development of a counter-discourse he calls melancholy realism through abolitionist and human-rights texts, British romantic poetry, Scottish moral philosophy, and the work of late-twentieth-century literary theorists. In revealing how the Zong tragedy resonates within contemporary financial systems and human-rights discourses, Baucom puts forth a deeply compelling, utterly original theory of history: one that insists that an eighteenth-century atrocity is not past but present within the future we now inhabit.
LC Classification Number
HT1162.B38 2005
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