TY - GEN AU - Baucom,Ian TI - Specters of the Atlantic: finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history SN - 0822335581 U1 - 306.3 21 PY - 2005/// CY - Duke PB - Duke University Press KW - LEMB KW - Capitalismo KW - Aspectos sociales KW - Siglo XVIII KW - Trata de esclavos KW - Africa KW - Historia KW - Reino Unido KW - Abolicionistas N1 - Incluye bibliografía, índice y notas; 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 ER -