| ISBN |
1847925715 (hardcover)
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| ISBN13桁 |
9781847925718 (hardcover)
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| テキストの言語 |
英語
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| 分類：NDC10版 |
316.833
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| 個人著者標目 |
Taylor, Michael.
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| 本タイトル |
The interest :
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| タイトル関連情報 |
how the British establishment resisted the abolition of slavery /
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| 著者名 |
Michael Taylor.
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| その他のタイトル |
How the British establishment resisted the abolition of slavery
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| 出版地・頒布地 |
London :
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| 出版者・頒布者名 |
The Bodley Head,
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| 出版年・頒布年 |
2020.
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| 数量 |
xvii, 382 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
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| 他の形態的事項 |
illustrations (color), maps, portraits (some color) ;
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| 大きさ |
25 cm
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| 書誌注記 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [346]-362) and index.
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| 内容注記 |
Introduction: Demerara, 1823 -- An evil of our own creation -- Hell and paradise -- For all the blood spilt -- The ghosts of Bunker Hill -- Deliver us from evil -- Two roads diverging -- Am I not a man and a brother? -- Wages or the whip -- The centre cannot hold -- Before the deluge -- The fall of the House of Liverpool -- Reform, that you may preserve -- A most extensive conspiracy -- Mere anarchy -- The condition of England -- False dawns -- The price of liberty -- The cat and the mill -- Epilogue: who else must fall?
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| 要約、抄録、注釈等 |
For two hundred years, the abolition of slavery in Britain has been a cause for self-congratulation - but no longer. In 1807, Parliament outlawed the slave trade in the British Empire, but for the next quarter of a century, despite heroic and bloody rebellions, more than 700,000 people in the British colonies remained enslaved. And when a renewed abolitionist campaign was mounted, making slave ownership the defining political and moral issue of the day, emancipation was fiercely resisted by the powerful 'West India Interest'. Supported by nearly every leading figure of the British establishment - including Canning, Peel and Gladstone, The Times and Spectator - the Interest ensured that slavery survived until 1833 and that when abolition came at last, compensation worth billions in today's money was given not to the enslaved but to the slaveholders, entrenching the power of their families to shape modern Britain to this day. Drawing on major new research, this long-overdue and ground-breaking history provides a gripping narrative account of the tumultuous and often violent battle - between rebels and planters, between abolitionists and the pro-slavery establishment - that divided and scarred the nation during these years of upheaval. The Interest reveals the lengths to which British leaders went to defend the indefensible in the name of profit, showing that the ultimate triumph of abolition came at a bitter cost and was one of the darkest and most dramatic episodes in British history.
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| 一般件名 |
Slavery -- History -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Slavery -- History -- Great Britain -- 19th century. |
| 地名件名 |
Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1800-1837.
Great Britain. |
| 資料情報1 |
『The interest :
how the British establishment resisted the abolition of slavery /』 Michael Taylor. The Bodley Head, 2020.
（所蔵館：中央
請求記号：F/316.8/T24/I
資料コード：7114434080）
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| URL |
https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352050134 |
