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Explores the maritime history of Bristol, a leading slave port in the eighteenth centuryDelves into the hazards of the slave trade, its recruitment of seamen, its fractious labour relations and mutinies, and how these were resolved by law. One chapter examines in detail how a shipwright sought redress for his ill-treatment aboard a slave ship and how sensitive the merchant elite were to insider criticism; another reveals how partial the Admiralty courts were to captains as sovereigns of their ships. The book also tracks the chequered fortunes of a New York/Bristol merchant family during the American war, the patterns of investment in mid-century privateering, which illustrate how money from slave-trade activities was mobilized for this speculative enterprise, and how naval impressment was used for political purposes. The book concludes with a chapter on why Bristol failed to emulate other culturally vibrant towns and cities in opposing the slave trade in the first phase of abolition. In the wake of the Edward Colston controversy, this book contributes to the ongoing debate as to how slavery has shaped British society.

HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy . --- Abolition of slavery. --- Admiralty. --- Atlantic Trade. --- Atlantic Voyages. --- Iberian Peninsula. --- Impressment. --- Irish Trade. --- Maritime History. --- Middle Passage. --- Mutiny. --- Naval Recruitment. --- Plantation Economy. --- Political Economy. --- Privateering. --- River Avon. --- Seamen. --- Slave Trade. --- Slavery. --- Society of Merchant Venturers. --- Sugar Trade. --- Tobacco Trade. --- Bristol (England) --- History

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In this authoritative and accessible book, one of the world's most renowned historians provides a concise and comprehensive history of capitalism within a global perspective from its medieval origins to the 2008 financial crisis and beyond. From early commercial capitalism in the Arab world, China, and Europe, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century industrialization, to today's globalized financial capitalism, Jürgen Kocka offers an unmatched account of capitalism, one that weighs its great achievements against its great costs, crises, and failures. Based on intensive research, the book puts the rise of capitalist economies in social, political, and cultural context, and shows how their current problems and foreseeable future are connected to a long history.Sweeping in scope, the book describes how capitalist expansion was connected to colonialism; how industrialism brought unprecedented innovation, growth, and prosperity but also increasing inequality; and how managerialism, financialization, and globalization later changed the face of capitalism. The book also addresses the idea of capitalism in the work of thinkers such as Marx, Weber, and Schumpeter, and chronicles how criticism of capitalism is as old as capitalism itself, fed by its persistent contradictions and recurrent emergencies.Authoritative and accessible, Capitalism is an enlightening account of a force that has shaped the modern world like few others.

Economic history. --- Capitalism --- History. --- Accounting. --- Agriculture. --- Artisan. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Calculation. --- Capital market. --- Capital requirement. --- Capitalism. --- Capitalist mode of production (Marxist theory). --- China. --- Commodification. --- Commodity. --- Competition. --- Consumer. --- Creative destruction. --- Criticism of capitalism. --- Criticism. --- Currency. --- Debt. --- Division of labour. --- Economic expansion. --- Economic forces. --- Economic inequality. --- Economic interventionism. --- Economic policy. --- Economic power. --- Economics. --- Economist. --- Economy. --- Employment. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Factory. --- Finance capitalism. --- Financial services. --- Financial transaction. --- Globalization. --- Government debt. --- Great power. --- Hegemony. --- High Middle Ages. --- Imperialism. --- Income. --- Industrialisation. --- Institution. --- Investment fund. --- Joint-stock company. --- Laborer. --- Labour power. --- Manufacturing. --- Market (economics). --- Market economy. --- Market mechanism. --- Marxism. --- Mercantilism. --- Merchant capitalism. --- Merchant. --- Mixed economy. --- Modernity. --- Money changer. --- Moral economy. --- Multinational corporation. --- Multitude. --- North America. --- Ownership. --- Partnership. --- Peasant. --- Plantation economy. --- Politics. --- Precious metal. --- Price mechanism. --- Raw material. --- Rentier capitalism. --- Right to property. --- Rudolf Hilferding. --- Scarcity. --- Serfdom. --- Shareholder. --- Slavery. --- Social order. --- State formation. --- State-owned enterprise. --- Stock exchange. --- Stock market. --- The Communist Manifesto. --- Too big to fail. --- Trade fair. --- Trading company. --- Unfree labour. --- Upper class. --- Vertical integration. --- Wage Labour and Capital. --- Wage. --- War economy. --- War. --- Wealth. --- Welfare. --- Western Europe. --- Workforce. --- World economy.