The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica (The Early Modern Americas)
by Trevor Burnard, John Garrigus
The Plantation Machine offers a comparative history of Atlantic capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica. Set within the early modern Americas, this study examines plantation economies and their place in the wider development of colonial and Atlantic economic systems.
About This Book
The Plantation Machine examines Atlantic capitalism through the plantation societies of French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica.
Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus place these two Caribbean settings within the broader history of the early modern Americas.
Focusing on plantation economies, the book offers a comparative approach to the relationship between colonial production and capitalism.
It is suited to readers interested in Caribbean history, Atlantic history, colonial studies, and the development of early modern economic systems.
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