Herman Merivale’s black legend: rethinking the intellectual history of free trade imperialism

Focusses on the lectures and theories of economist and colonial bureaucrat Herman Merivale on the imperial transition of British colonialism from slave labour to free labour, and toward free trade, in 1839. Author specifically shows how Merivale propagated the free trade imperialism of the reformed...

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Main Author: Daniel Rood
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BRILL 2008-12-01
Series:NWIG
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Online Access:http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/nwig/article/view/3574