Specters of the Atlantic : finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history / Ian Baucom - Duke : Duke University Press, 2005 - 387 páginas ; 23 cm.
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Pte. 1ª: "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. -- "MadamDeath! Madam Death!": Credite, Insurance, and the Atlantic Cycle of Capital Accumulation. -- "Signum Rememorativum, Demostrativum, Prognostikom": Modernity and the Truth Event. -- "Please decide": The Singular and the Speculative. -- Pte. 2ª: Specters of the Atlantic: Slavery and the Witness. -- Frontispiece: Testimony, Right, and the State of Exeption. -- THe View from the Window:Sympathy, Melancholy, and the Problem of "Humanity". -- The Fact of History: On Cosmopolitan Interestedness. -- The Imagaginary Resentment of the Dead: A Theory of Melancholy Sentiment. -- "To Tumble into It, and Gasp for Breath as We Go Down": Teh Idea of Suffering and the Case of Liberal Cosmopolitanism. -- This/Such, for Instance: The Witness against "History". -- Pte. 3ª: "The Sea Is History". -- Teh Sea Is History": On Temporal Accumulation.
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Capitalismo--Aspectos sociales--Siglo XVIII
Trata de esclavos--Historia--Africa--Siglo XVIII
Trata de esclavos--Historia--Reino Unido--Siglo XVIII
Abolicionistas--Historia--Reino Unido--Siglo XVIII
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