Dale W. Tomich is Deputy Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, and Professor of Sociology and History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the editor of New Frontiers of Slavery, also published by SUNY Press.

"…a valuable contribution to the recent focus on contextualizing slavery by emphasizing its defining relationship with the 'wider world-market.'" — H-Net Reviews (H-LatAm)

• List of TablesList of IllustrationsForewordRichard E. LeePreface to the Second EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to the First Edition: Sugar, Slavery, and CapitalismIntroduction to the Second Edition: The Capitalist World-Economy as a Small Island1. Sugar and Slavery in an Age of Global Transformation, 1791–18482. The Contradictions of Protectionism: Colonial Policy and the French Sugar Market, 1804–18483. The Local Face of World Process4. Sugar and Slavery: Forces and Relations of Production5. The Habitation Sucrière: Cell Unit of Colonial Production6. Obstacles to Innovation7. A Calculated and Calculating System: The Dialectic of Slave Labor8. The Other Face of Slave Labor: Provision Grounds and Internal MarketingConclusion: The Global in the Local: World-Economy, Sugar, and the Crisis of Plantation Slavery in MartiniqueAppendix 1 Estimated Volume of the Slave Trade to Martinique, 1814–1831Appendix 2 Slave Prices by Age and Occupation, 1825–1839NotesBibliographyIndex

Dale W. Tomich is Deputy Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, and Professor of Sociology and History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the editor of New Frontiers of Slavery, also published by SUNY Press.

"…a valuable contribution to the recent focus on contextualizing slavery by emphasizing its defining relationship with the 'wider world-market.'" — H-Net Reviews (H-LatAm)

• List of TablesList of IllustrationsForewordRichard E. LeePreface to the Second EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to the First Edition: Sugar, Slavery, and CapitalismIntroduction to the Second Edition: The Capitalist World-Economy as a Small Island1. Sugar and Slavery in an Age of Global Transformation, 1791–18482. The Contradictions of Protectionism: Colonial Policy and the French Sugar Market, 1804–18483. The Local Face of World Process4. Sugar and Slavery: Forces and Relations of Production5. The Habitation Sucrière: Cell Unit of Colonial Production6. Obstacles to Innovation7. A Calculated and Calculating System: The Dialectic of Slave Labor8. The Other Face of Slave Labor: Provision Grounds and Internal MarketingConclusion: The Global in the Local: World-Economy, Sugar, and the Crisis of Plantation Slavery in MartiniqueAppendix 1 Estimated Volume of the Slave Trade to Martinique, 1814–1831Appendix 2 Slave Prices by Age and Occupation, 1825–1839NotesBibliographyIndex

Dale W. Tomich is Deputy Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, and Professor of Sociology and History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the editor of New Frontiers of Slavery, also published by SUNY Press.

"…a valuable contribution to the recent focus on contextualizing slavery by emphasizing its defining relationship with the 'wider world-market.'" — H-Net Reviews (H-LatAm)

• List of TablesList of IllustrationsForewordRichard E. LeePreface to the Second EditionAcknowledgmentsIntroduction to the First Edition: Sugar, Slavery, and CapitalismIntroduction to the Second Edition: The Capitalist World-Economy as a Small Island1. Sugar and Slavery in an Age of Global Transformation, 1791–18482. The Contradictions of Protectionism: Colonial Policy and the French Sugar Market, 1804–18483. The Local Face of World Process4. Sugar and Slavery: Forces and Relations of Production5. The Habitation Sucrière: Cell Unit of Colonial Production6. Obstacles to Innovation7. A Calculated and Calculating System: The Dialectic of Slave Labor8. The Other Face of Slave Labor: Provision Grounds and Internal MarketingConclusion: The Global in the Local: World-Economy, Sugar, and the Crisis of Plantation Slavery in MartiniqueAppendix 1 Estimated Volume of the Slave Trade to Martinique, 1814–1831Appendix 2 Slave Prices by Age and Occupation, 1825–1839NotesBibliographyIndex