Slavery in the circuit of sugar : Martinique and the world-economy, 1830-1848

Sugar and slavery in an age of global transformation, 1791-1848 -- The contradictions of protectionism : colonial policy and the French sugar market, 1804-1848 -- The local face of world process -- Sugar and slavery : forces and relations of production -- The habitation sucrière : cell unit of colonial production -- Obstacles to innovation -- A calculated and calculating system : the dialectic of slave labor -- The other face of slave labor : provision grounds and internal marketing -- Conclusion the global in the local : world-economy, sugar, and the crisis of plantation slavery in Martinique