Econocide(English, Hardcover, Drescher Seymour)

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Econocide(English, Hardcover, Drescher Seymour) is written by Drescher Seymour and published by The University of North Carolina Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807834467 (ISBN 10) and 9780807834466 (ISBN 13).

In this classic analysis and refutation of Eric Williams's 1944 thesis, Seymour Drescher argues that Britain's abolition of the slave trade in 1807 resulted not from the diminishing value of slavery for Great Britain but instead from the British public's mobilization against the slave trade, which forced London to commit what Drescher terms econocide. This action, he argues, was detrimental to Britain's economic interests at a time when British slavery was actually at the height of its potential. Originally published in 1977, Drescher's work was instrumental in undermining the economic determinist interpretation of abolitionism that had dominated historical discourse for decades following World War II. For this second edition, which includes a foreword by David Brion Davis, Drescher has written a new preface, reflecting on the historiography of the British slave trade since this book's original publication.