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- ISBN-13
- 9780190856854
- Book Title
- Calculation and Morality
- ISBN
- 9780190856854
- Subject Area
- Business & Economics, History
- Publication Name
- Calculation and Morality : the Costs of Slavery and the Value of Emancipation in the French Antilles
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 6.3 in
- Subject
- Economic History, Europe / France, Economics / General
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Series
- Oxford Studies in History of Economics Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Item Weight
- 11.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 9.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0190856858
ISBN-13
9780190856854
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6038666826
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Publication Name
Calculation and Morality : the Costs of Slavery and the Value of Emancipation in the French Antilles
Language
English
Subject
Economic History, Europe / France, Economics / General
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Business & Economics, History
Series
Oxford Studies in History of Economics Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Item Length
6.3 in
Item Width
9.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2018-024944
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Calculation and Morality is a major contribution to the study of the French antislavery movement. A history of ideas, it concentrates on the ways abolitionists and their opponents used the tools of political economy. This focus illuminates one of the distinctive characteristics of France's national debate about colonial slavery." -- John Garrigus, Journal of Modern History"An engrossing book that allows us to trace the economic element and its interaction with humanitarianism in the eighteenth and nineteenth century French colonial slavery question." -Oeconomia, "An engrossing book that allows us to trace the economic element and its interaction with humanitarianism in the eighteenth and nineteenth century French colonial slavery question." -Oeconomia, "Calculation and Morality is a major contribution to the study of the French antislavery movement. A history of ideas, it concentrates on the ways abolitionists and their opponents used the tools of political economy. This focus illuminates one of the distinctive characteristics of France's national debate about colonial slavery." -- John Garrigus, Journal of Modern History "An engrossing book that allows us to trace the economic element and its interaction with humanitarianism in the eighteenth and nineteenth century French colonial slavery question." -Oeconomia
Dewey Decimal
306.3/620944
Table Of Content
Introduction Chapter 1. Du Pont: or, the Economic Error of Slavery, as Demonstrated by Calculation Chapter 2. The Proliferating Use of Calculation among Eighteenth-century Abolitionists Chapter 3. Colonists also Calculate Chapter 4. Moving Away from the Rhetoric of Calculation Chapter 5. The Institutional Inscription of Calculation Chapter 6. Another Form of Calculation: Productivity Chapter 7. Self-interest and Needs Chapter 8. Status and Interest Chapter 9. Justice and Utility Conclusion. Freeing the Slaves References Index of names
Synopsis
This book studies how, from the last third of the 18th century to 1848, comparative costs of slave and free labor played a key role in the French debate over the abolition of slavery. The book thus offers an original view upon the connection between economic calculation and morality., Debates about whether to maintain or abolish slavery revolved around two key values: the morality of enslaving other human beings and the economic benefits and costs of slavery as compared to free labor. Various and conflicting arguments were presented by abolitionists, colonists, and administrators in slave-holding societies, all of whom used calculations about the relative cost and productivity of slavery to defend their own point of view in an impassioned debate. In Calculation and Morality , Caroline Oudin-Bastide and Philippe Steiner consider how economic calculations, estimations, and arguments informed the long debate over French slavery between 1771 and 1848. They show how calculation was introduced into moral debate and became a critical social object in regard both to its consistency and its manifest effects. To do so they trace a process in which phenomena were classified into groups, becoming a category, and then how metrics and calculations were used to analyze the possible effects of emancipating slaves in French colonies. Abolitionists sought to demonstrate that it was in the interest of slaveowners and/or the entire nation to employ free labour in the colonies, and to show the irrationality of the colonial and metropolitan defenders of servitude; their aim was to enlighten various parties as to their real interest, and how that real interest coincided with justice. In turn, colonists accused those opposed to slavery of being blinded by their own philanthropic principles and insisted on the rationality of the slave system as the only means of meeting the interests of everyone, including slaves, at least in the short and medium term. Oudin-Bastide and Steiner closely examine the positions and reasoning of such influential French thinkers as Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Antoine Nicolas de Condorcet, Simonde de Sismondi, Jean Baptiste Say, and Alexis de Tocqueville. In doing so they shed light on the interaction of moral precepts and econonomic calculations in a trenchant study in the history of ideas., Debates about whether to maintain or abolish slavery revolved around two key values: the morality of enslaving other human beings and the economic benefits and costs of slavery as compared to free labor. Various and conflicting arguments were presented by abolitionists, colonists, and administrators in slave-holding societies, all of whom used calculations about the relative cost and productivity of slavery to defend their own point of view in an impassioned debate. In Calculation and Morality, Caroline Oudin-Bastide and Philippe Steiner consider how economic calculations, estimations, and arguments informed the long debate over French slavery between 1771 and 1848. They show how calculation was introduced into moral debate and became a critical social object in regard both to its consistency and its manifest effects. To do so they trace a process in which phenomena were classified into groups, becoming a category, and then how metrics and calculations were used to analyze the possible effects of emancipating slaves in French colonies. Abolitionists sought to demonstrate that it was in the interest of slaveowners and/or the entire nation to employ free labour in the colonies, and to show the irrationality of the colonial and metropolitan defenders of servitude; their aim was to enlighten various parties as to their real interest, and how that real interest coincided with justice. In turn, colonists accused those opposed to slavery of being blinded by their own philanthropic principles and insisted on the rationality of the slave system as the only means of meeting the interests of everyone, including slaves, at least in the short and medium term. Oudin-Bastide and Steiner closely examine the positions and reasoning of such influential French thinkers as Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Antoine Nicolas de Condorcet, Simonde de Sismondi, Jean Baptiste Say, and Alexis de Tocqueville. In doing so they shed light on the interaction of moral precepts and econonomic calculations in a trenchant study in the history of ideas., Debates about whether to maintain or abolish slavery revolved around two key values: the morality of enslaving other human beings and the economic benefits and costs of slavery as compared to free labor. Various and conflicting arguments were presented by abolitionists, colonists, and administrators in slave-holding societies, all of whom used calculations about the relative cost and productivity of slavery to defend their own point of view in an impassioned debate.In Calculation and Morality, Caroline Oudin-Bastide and Philippe Steiner consider how economic calculations, estimations, and arguments informed the long debate over French slavery between 1771 and 1848. They show how calculation was introduced into moral debate and became a critical social object in regard both to its consistency and its manifest effects. To do so they trace a process in which phenomena were classified into groups, becoming a category, and then how metrics and calculations were used to analyze the possible effects of emancipating slaves in French colonies. Abolitionists sought to demonstrate that it was in the interest of slaveowners and/or the entire nation to employ free labour in the colonies, and to show the irrationality of the colonial and metropolitan defenders of servitude; their aim was to enlighten various parties as to their real interest, and how that real interest coincided with justice. In turn, colonists accused those opposed to slavery of being blinded by their own philanthropic principles and insisted on the rationality of the slave system as the only means of meeting the interests of everyone, including slaves, at least in the short and medium term.Oudin-Bastide and Steiner closely examine the positions and reasoning of such influential French thinkers as Pierre Samuel Du Pont de Nemours, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Antoine Nicolas de Condorcet, Simonde de Sismondi, Jean Baptiste Say, and Alexis de Tocqueville. In doing so they shed light on the interaction of moral precepts and econonomic calculations in a trenchant study in the history of ideas.
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