Inhaltsangabe: Specters of the Atlantic :

Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser:	Baucom, Ian, 1967-
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	Englisch
Veröffentlicht:	Duke University Press, 2005
Schlagworte:	Zong (Ship) 6903 Slave trade Great Britain History 18th century. 6904 Slave trade Africa History 18th century. 6905 Slave trade America History 18th century. 6906 Antislavery movements Great Britain History 18th century. 6907 Abolitionists Great Britain History 18th century. 6908 Trials Great Britain History 18th century. 6909 Capitalism Social aspects History 18th century. 6910
Online-Zugang:	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0513/2005013577.html http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=11862
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Inhaltsangabe:

"Now being" : slavery, speculation, and the measure of our time -- Liverpool, a capital of the long twentieth century -- "Subject $" : or, the "type" of the modern -- "Madam death! madam death!" : credit, insurance, and the Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation -- "Signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognostikon" : modernity and the truth event -- "Please decide" : the singular and the speculative -- Specters of the Atlantic : slavery and the witness -- Frontispiece : testimony, rights, and the state of exception -- The view from the window : sympathy, melancholy, and the problem of "humanity" -- The fact of history : on cosmopolitan interestedness -- The imaginary resentment of the dead : a theory of melancholy sentiment -- "To tumble into it, and gasp for breath as we go down" : the idea of suffering -- And the case of liberal cosmopolitanism -- This/such, for instance : the witness against "history" -- "The sea is history" -- "The sea is history" : on temporal accumulation.

Specters of the Atlantic : finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history /