4 The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Birth of the Business Cycle

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Tables and Figures vii
4. List of Contributors viii
5. Acknowledgements x
6. List of Abbreviations xi
7. 1 Capitalism: Histories and Institutions 1
8. 2 Origin Stories: Expressions and Presentations of Capitalism in Early British America 26
9. 3 Creativity and Capitalism in the Nineteenth-Century United States 60
10. 4 The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Birth of the Business Cycle 79
11. 5 Violence and Capitalism in Early Modern European Overseas Expansion 99
12. 6 Capitalism in Africa: Two Histories, 1650s–1940s 123
13. 7 European Empires and the Origins of Global Capitalism 159
14. 8 Capitalism in a Feudal Society? Property Rights and Economic Development in Russia under Serfdom 180
15. 9 Capitalism in South Asia: Three Transitions 200
16. 10 Capitalism, Caste and Subaltern Aspirations in India: Bengal, c.1500–1859 221
17. 11 Chinese Capitalism c.1500–1850: Institutions, Dimensions, Dynamics and Limitations 246
18. 12 Why the Soybean Export Failed to Trigger the Reemergence of Coercive Labour Control in Eighteenth-Century Manchuria 275
19. 13 Property Law at the Transition to Exponential Growth: Examples from Japan 294
20. Index 309