Rethinking capitalism and slavery, New perspectives from American debates

Review article of: Edward E. Baptist, The half has never been told. Slavery and the making of American capitalism (New York: Basic Books, 2014) Sven Beckert, Empire of cotton. A global history (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014) Greg Grandin, The Empire of necessity. Slavery, freedom, and deception in the new world (New York: Metropolitan, 2014) Walter Johnson, River of dark dreams. Slavery and Empire in the cotton kingdom (Cambridge, MA / London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2013) Calvin Schermerhorn, The business of slavery and the rise of American capitalism, 1815-1860 (New Haven / London: Yale University Press, 2015)