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Catherine Hall, "Making White and Black: Edward Long, slave-owner and historian of Jamaica" (5 juin)

Year: 2025

Type: other

Abstract: Jeudi 5 juin à 17h, salle D223 à la Maison de la Recherche (28, rue Serpente, 75006 Paris) Catherine Hall (University College London) présentera son dernier ouvrage, Lucky Valley. Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2024). Résumé : Why does Edward Long’s History of Jamaica matter? Written in 1774, Long’s History, that most ‘civilised’ of documents, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Long deployed natural history...

Source: Industrias Culturais (Universidade de Coimbra)

DOI: 10.58079/1402m

Author: Fbensimon

Language: English

Topic: Colonialism, slavery, and trade

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6899106433

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