TY - BOOK AU - Sell,Zach TI - Trouble of the world: slavery and empire in the age of capital SN - 9781469661346 AV - E441 .S46 2021 U1 - 331.11/734097309034 23 PY - 2021///] CY - Chapel Hill PB - The University of North Carolina Press KW - Slavery KW - Economic aspects KW - United States KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Colonization KW - Capitalism KW - Imperialism KW - Great Britain KW - Colonies KW - Social conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-321) and index N2 - "In the mid-nineteenth century, U.S. slavery was characterized by relentless expansion and unrelenting exportation, not only of commodities but also of ideas. Zach Sell traces U.S. slavery's significance to colonial land-based dispossessions on a global scale, showing how slavery molded the United States as an empire-state while other imperial powers looked to it as a model for their own colonial projects"-- ER -