The Empire of Necessity : Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World Cover Image

Book

The Empire of Necessity : Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World / Greg Grandin.

Grandin, Greg, 1962- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780805094534
Physical Description: xiv, 360 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
Copyright: ©2014

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-342) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Fast fish. Hawks abroad ; More liberty ; A lion without a crown ; Body and soul ; A conspiracy of lifting and throwing ; Interlude : I never could look at death without a shudder -- A loose fish. A suitable guide to bliss ; The levelling system ; South Sea dreams ; Interlude : black will always have something melancholy in it -- The new extreme. The skin trade ; Falling man ; The crossing ; Diamonds on the soles of their feet ; Interlude : heaven's sense -- Further. Killing seals ; Isolatos ; A terrific sovereignty ; Slavery has grades ; Interlude : a merry repast -- If God wills. Night of power ; The story of the San Juan ; Mohammed's cursed sect ; Interlude : abominable, contemptible Hayti -- Who ain't a slave? Desperation ; Deception ; Retribution ; Conviction ; Interlude : the machinery of civilization -- General average. Lima, or the law of general average ; The lucky one ; Undistributed ; Epilogue : Herman Melville's America.