Plantation Technocrats: A Social History of Knowledge in the Slaveholding Atlantic World, 1830--1865 (2010)
Rood, Daniel Brett (Author)
University of California, Irvine
Fahs, Alice
Edition Details: Advisor: Fahs, Alice
Physical Details: 265 pp.
Language: English
My dissertation takes a novel interdisciplinary approach to Atlantic slavery in the nineteenth century. Unlike previous work on slave economies, it draws upon transnational studies and, especially, the history of science and technology. My research examines transnational networks of "industrial experts" such as chemists and machinists, paying particular attention to the new forms of knowledge they articulated while working in slave societies. While mostly ignored by scholars of both slavery and industrialization, chemists, engineers, statisticians, and machinists worked extensively in sugar refineries, railroad/telegraph systems, machine shops, automated flour-mills and other nodes of commodity production in slave societies of the Americas. Including these important new players in the sociology of the plantation both enriches our understanding of slave societies, and challenges scholars of the Industrial Revolution in the northern United States and Western Europe to revise some of their longest-held notions about the place of slavery in the development of modern capitalism.
...MoreDescription Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 71/06 (2010). Pub. no. AAT 3403494.
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