Atlantic Transformations

Dale W. Tomich is Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition: Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830–1848 and the editor of The Politics of the Second Slavery, both also published by SUNY Press.

"…Atlantic Transformations offers new ways of thinking about elites as a broad and heterogeneous group by disaggregating their formal political power and informal socioeconomic capital within a world system." — Journal of British Studies

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceDale W. Tomich1780–1880: A Century of Imperial TransformationJosep M. FraderaSlavery in Mainland Spanish America in the Age of the Second SlaveryMarcela EcheverriTransatlantic Patriotisms: Race and Nation in the Impact of the Guerra de África in the Spanish Caribbean in 1860Albert Garcia-BalañàThe End of the Legal Slave Trade in Cuba and the Second SlaveryJosé Antonio PiquerasFrom Cotton to Camels: Plantation Ambitions in Midcentury HispaniolaAnne EllerThe Fight against Patronato: Labra, Cepeda, and the Second AbolitionLuis Miguel García MoraAtlantization and the First Failed Slavery: Panama from the Sixteenth to the Seventeenth CenturyJavier LaviñaSlavery in the Paraíba Valley and the Formation of the World Coffee Market in the Nineteenth CenturyRafael Marquese and Dale TomichContributorsIndex