Seymour Drescher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Seymour Drescher is an American historian and a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, known for his studies on Alexis de Tocqueville and slavery and his published work Econocide. Career Seymour Drescher has been publishing since 1959. He initially focused his research on Tocqueville. He was the first to attract scholarly attention to Tocqueville's views of problems of poverty, colonial slavery, and race. Of his work in this field, Tocqueville scholar Matthew Mancini, calls Seymour Drescher "arguably the finest Tocqueville scholar writing in English..."
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- Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition (1977) (190)
- Capitalism and antislavery : British mobilization in comparative perspective (1988) (163)
- From Slavery to Freedom (1999) (157)
- The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation (2002) (147)
- WHOSE ABOLITION? POPULAR PRESSURE AND THE ENDING OF THE BRITISH SLAVE TRADE (1994) (107)
- Abolition: A History of Slavery and Antislavery (2009) (93)
- Public Opinion and the Destruction of British Colonial Slavery (1982) (1982) (61)
- A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884-1926 (2006) (55)
- The long goodbye: Dutch capitalism and antislavery in comparative perspective (1994) (52)
- Anti-slavery, religion, and reform : essays in memory of Roger Anstey (1982) (48)
- Capitalism and antislavery (1986) (48)
- A historical guide to world slavery (1999) (45)
- Dilemmas of Democracy: Tocqueville and Modernization. (1968) (44)
- From Slavery to Freedom: Comparative Studies in the Rise and Fall of Atlantic Slavery (1999) (44)
- Tocqueville's Two Democraties (1964) (43)
- Manumission in a society without slave law: Eighteenth century England (1989) (42)
- The Ending of the Slave Trade and the Evolution of European Scientific Racism (1990) (40)
- ‘Chords of Freedom’: Commemoration, Ritual and British Transatlantic Slavery (2008) (40)
- Tocqueville and England (1964) (38)
- Slave Cultures and the Cultures of Slavery. (1997) (32)
- Cart Whip and Billy Roller: Antislavery and Reform Symbolism in Industrializing Britain (1981) (30)
- The Abolition of Slavery and the Aftermath of Emancipation in Brazil (1988) (27)
- Tocqueville and Beaumont on social reform (1968) (26)
- From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Salve Revolts in the Making of the Modern World. By Eugene D. Genovese (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1979. xxv + 173 pp. $9.95) (1981) (26)
- The role of Jews in the transatlantic slave trade (1993) (26)
- West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783–1807 (2010) (25)
- People and Parliament: The Rhetoric of the British Slave Trade (1990) (23)
- British Way, French Way: Opinion Building and Revolution in the Second French Slave Emancipation (1991) (22)
- The Shocking Birth of British Abolitionism (2012) (21)
- The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture (review) (2001) (21)
- Capitalism and slavery after fifty years (1997) (20)
- The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Holocaust: A Comparative Analysis (1996) (1999) (18)
- The Decline Thesis of British Slavery since Econocide (1986) (17)
- On James Farr's ` “So Vile and Miserable an Estate' ” (1988) (16)
- Eric Williams: British Capitalism and British Slavery (1987) (1987) (15)
- The French liberal opposition and the American Civil War (1969) (14)
- The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville. By Roger Boesche. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987. 288 pp. $29.95.) (1988) (13)
- Abolitionist expectations: Britain (2000) (13)
- History’s Engines: British Mobilization in the Age of Revolution (2018) (12)
- Public Opinion and Parliament in the Abolition of the British Slave Trade (2007) (12)
- Slavery in the Development of the Americas: White Atlantic? The Choice for African Slave Labor in the Plantation Americas (2004) (11)
- Political symbolism in modern Europe : essays in honor of George L. Mosse (1986) (10)
- Brazilian Abolition in Comparative Perspective (1988) (10)
- The slaving capital of the world: Liverpool and national opinion in the age of abolition (1988) (9)
- Scotland and the Abolition of Black Slavery, 1756-1838 (2007) (9)
- Liberty, Equality, and Revolution in Alexis de Tocqueville (1973) (8)
- Who Needs Anciennete? Tocqueville on Aristocracy and Modernity (2003) (8)
- Two Variants of Anti-Slavery: Religious Organization and Social Mobilization in Britain and France, 1780–1870 (1980) (1999) (8)
- CAPITALISM AND THE DECLINE OF SLAVERY: THE BRITISH CASE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (1977) (8)
- Jews and New Christians in the Atlantic Slave Trade (2010) (7)
- American Historians and Tocqueville's Democracy (1968) (7)
- Servile Insurrection and John Brown’s Body in Europe (1993) (1993) (7)
- Antislavery Debates: Tides of Historiography in Slavery and Antislavery (2011) (7)
- Women's Mobilization in the Era of Slave Emancipation: Some Anglo-French Comparisons (2007) (7)
- From Consensus to Consensus: Slavery in International Law (2012) (6)
- Free Labor vs Slave Labor: The British and Caribbean Cases (1999) (1999) (6)
- Who abolished slavery : slave revolts and abolitionism : a debate with João Pedro Marques (2010) (5)
- The Fragmentation of Atlantic Slavery and the British Intercolonial Slave Trade (2005) (5)
- Capitalism and Abolition: Values and Forces in Britain, 1783–1814 (1976) (1999) (4)
- Tocqueville’s Comparative Perspectives (2006) (4)
- Democracy in America. By Alexis de Tocqueville. Trans. and ed. by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xcii, 722 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-226-80532-8.) (2001) (4)
- "Why Great Revolutions Will Become Rare": Tocqueville's Most Neglected Prognosis (1992) (4)
- What History Tells: George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe (2006) (3)
- America and French Romanticism During the July Monarchy (1959) (3)
- Pathways from Slavery: British and Colonial Mobilizations in Global Perspective (2017) (3)
- DAVID ELTIS and JAMES WALVIN, eds. — The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Origins and Effects in Europe, Africa, and the Americas. (1983) (2)
- British Capitalism and Caribbean Slavery: Paradigms Tossed: Capitalism and the Political Sources of Abolition (1988) (2)
- The Eternal Problem of Slavery in International Law: Killing the Vampire of Human Culture (2018) (2)
- The Limits of Example (2020) (2)
- European Antislavery: From Empires of Slavery to Global Prohibition (2017) (2)
- The Making of Tocqueville's Democracy in America. By James T. Schleifer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. xxv + 387 pp. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, and index. $26.00.) (1981) (2)
- Tocqueville's Comparisons:Choices and Lessons (2006) (2)
- The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Holocaust: A Comparative Analysis (2019) (1)
- Chapter Ten. Divergent Paths: The Anglo-American Abolitions Of The Atlantic Slave Trade (2009) (1)
- Class Conflict, Hegemony and the Costs of Antislavery (1986) (1)
- Women’s Mobilization in the Era of Slave Emancipation (2018) (1)
- Civil Society and Paths to Abolition (2016) (1)
- The Slave Trade and Slavery, a Round Table Discussion (2009) (1)
- Abolition: Abolitionism without Revolution: Great Britain, 1770s–1820s (2009) (1)
- British Slavers: A Comment (1985) (1)
- Franco-American Revolutions, 1780s–1820s (2009) (1)
- Civilizing Insurgency: Two Variants of Slave Revolts in the Age of Revolution (2018) (1)
- Reviews of Books:Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem Suzanne Miers (2004) (1)
- Econocide: British Slavery in the Era of Abolition (1977) (0)
- God’s Work: Antislavery and Religious Mobilization (1986) (0)
- Abolition: A Perennial Institution (2009) (0)
- Oral History Interview: Seymour Drescher (1376) (2018) (0)
- MICHAEL CRATON, with the assistance of GARRY GREENLAND. — Searching for the Invisible Man: Slaves and Plantation Life in Jamaica. (1979) (0)
- Abolition: Expanding Slavery (2009) (0)
- 5. Women’s Mobilization in the Era of Slave Emancipation: Some Anglo-French Comparisons (2017) (0)
- The Role of Jews in the Transatlantic Slave Trade (1993) (1999) (0)
- How the Dismal Science got its Name: Classical Economics and the Ur-Text of Racial Politics. By David M. Levy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 320. $55.00, cloth; $21.95, paper. (2003) (0)
- Abolition: Latin American Revolutions, 1810s–1820s (2009) (0)
- Democracy, Civil Society and Antislavery in Tocquevillian Perspective (2014) (0)
- Testing the Chains: Resistance to Slavery in the British West Indies. By Michael Craton. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1982. 389 pp. + illustrations) (1984) (0)
- George Mosse and Political Symbolism (2020) (0)
- Abolition: British Emancipation (2009) (0)
- Abolition: Reversion in Europe (2009) (0)
- Slave Traffic in the Age of Abolition: Puerto Rico, West Africa, and the Non-Hispanic Caribbean, 1815-1859 (review) (2004) (0)
- The Distinctiveness of British Abolitionist Mobilization (1986) (0)
- The Impact of Popular Mobilization in Britain and the Caribbean (1986) (0)
- Emperors of the World (2018) (0)
- Many Faces of Slaveholding Sephardim (2020) (0)
- Antislavery and Capitalism (1986) (0)
- Eric Williams: British Capitalism and British Slavery [A Review of Reviews] (1987) (0)
- Britain, India and Bondage Part Two : Indentured Emigration (2018) (0)
- Review: Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery (2004) (0)
- Confrontation: Paris, 1968 (1973) (0)
- Tocqueville's New Democracy (2003) (0)
- Liberty, Equality, Humanity (2018) (0)
- Abolition and Civil Society: West and East (2018) (0)
- Britain, India and Bondage, Part One (2018) (0)
- Political Symbolism in Modern Europe (2020) (0)
- Capitalism and Slavery after Fifty Years (1997) (1999) (0)
- Abolition: The End of Slavery in Anglo-America (2009) (0)
- “There Are No Slaves in France”: The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancien Regime. By Sue Peabody (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. x plus 210pp.) (1998) (0)
- 10. The Fragmentation of Atlantic Slavery and the British Intercolonial Slave Trade (2017) (0)
- Louis Chevalier. Laboring Classes and Dangerous Classes in Paris during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Translated from the French by Frank Jellinek. New York: Howard Fertig. 1973. Pp. viii, 505. $15.00 (1974) (0)
- The Sugar Industry and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1775-1810 (review) (2003) (0)
- Legislators and Peoples: (2016) (0)
- Abolition: Cycles Actual and Counterfactual (2009) (0)
- Britain, the Slave Trade and Its Abolition (1979) (0)
- Abolition: Emancipation in the Old World, 1880s–1920s (2009) (0)
- Africa, Asia, and Latin America (1997) (0)
- Kevin Grant. A Civilised Savagery: Britain and the New Slaveries in Africa, 1884–1926. New York: Routledge. 2005. Pp. xii, 223. $22.95. (2006) (0)
- The Breakthrough 1787–92 (1986) (0)
- Abolition: Abolishing New World Slavery – Latin America (2009) (0)
- Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. By David Eltis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. xiv plus 418 pp.) (1988) (0)
- Border Skirmish: Neither Wages nor the Whip (1986) (0)
- Killing the vampire of human culture: slavery as a problem in international law (2019) (0)
- Approaches to global antislavery (2022) (0)
- Madge Dresser. Slavery Obscured: The Social History of the Slave Trade in an English Provincial Port. (The Black Atlantic.) New York: Continuum. 2001. Pp. xiv, 242. n. p. paper. ISBN 0-8264-4876-3. (2003) (0)
- Abolition: From Colonial Emancipation to Global Abolition (2009) (0)
- Abolition: Extension and Tension (2009) (0)
- The Foundations of Slavery and Antislavery (1986) (0)
- Humanitarian Intervention and Changing Labor Relations: The Long-Term Implications of the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Edited by Marcel van der Linden (Leiden/Boston: Brill 2011. xvi plus 556 pp.) (2013) (0)
- Humanitarian Intervention and Changing Labor Relations: The Long-Term Implications of the Abolition of the Slave Trade ed. by Marcel van der Linden (review) (2013) (0)
- Abolition: Age of the American Revolution, 1770s–1820s (2009) (0)
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