Sugar and slavery, family and race : the letters and diary of Pierre Dessalles, planter in Martinique, 1808-1856
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Sugar and slavery, family and race : the letters and diary of Pierre Dessalles, planter in Martinique, 1808-1856
（The Johns Hopkins studies in Atlantic history and culture）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996
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Vie d'un colon à la Martinique au XIXème siècle
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Vie d'un colon à la Martinique au XIXème siècle
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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ISBN 9780801851537
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This exploration of the role of the book and book industry in early modern France moves from the new technology of printing to look at the political implications of publishing in the reign of Francis I, including such topics as the founding of royal and university libraries, the role of church-state relations, Richelieu's cultural programme, and censorship. Using Rouen and Grenoble as case studies, the author examines what books were sold, and to which social groups, explaining why the initially successful printers of Rouen were eventually forced out of business by the Parisian courts. The French government is shown to have attempted to suppress and control publication, but these attempts were eventually thwarted by free market forces from Amsterdam and Neufchatel.
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pbk. : acid-free paper ISBN 9780801851544
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Diaries of nineteenth-century plantation managers are rare; diaries of French sugar planters are rarer still. Although such works as the diaries of Ella Gertrude Thomas and James Henry Hammond provide insight into the plantation societies of the antebellum South, virtually no contemporary source treats planter-slave relations as extensively, or presents a white planter's views on slave society in as much detail, as do the letters and diary of Pierre Dessalles. Now Elborg Forster and Robert Forster have translated and edited the most historically and socially significant portions of this unusual work. Previously available only in a four-volume French edition, these materials treat a wide range of topics, including the slave economy, management and socialization of the labor force, the role of free blacks in society, the lives led by the plantation owners, and, significantly, black-white relations before, during, and after emancipation.
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