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Contributors from the US, Britain and continental Europe examine the ways in which the slave economy touched on individual lives and economic developments in German-speaking Europe, Switzerland, Denmark and Italy. They reveal how these 'hinterlands' served as suppliers of investment, labour and trade goods for the slave trade and of materials for the plantation economies, and how involvement in trade networks contributed in turn to key economic developments in the 'hinterlands'. The chapters range in time from the first, short-lived attempt at establishing a German slave-trading operation in the 1680s to the involvement of textile manufacturers in transatlantic trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. A key theme of the volume is the question of conscience, or awareness of being morally implicated in an immoral enterprise. Evidence for subjective understandings of the moral challenge of slavery is found in individual actions and statements and also in post-abolition colonisation and missionary projects.   FELIX BRAHM is Research Fellow at the German Historical Institute in London.   EVE ROSENHAFT is Professor of German Historical Studies, University of Liverpool.   CONTRIBUTORS: Felix Brahm, Peter Haenger, Catherine Hall, Daniel P. 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Ethical investment and fair trade, the politics of boycott, and corporate 'greenwashing' are well established in the repertoire of corporate and individual action and public debate. This repertoire has a history; neither moral indifference nor ethical engagement is 'natural' or self-evident. How and when do (and did) people come to see themselves as answerable for the well-being of distant others, and in particular to see that their commercial activity - as consumers, investors, or managers in global businesses - endows them with both power and responsibility to take moral action? The essays in this volume examine some key cases in the evolution of this kind of economic conscience in Europe, from the emergence of the modern global system, based on the growth of joint-stock maritime trading companies, the financial revolution, and transatlantic slavery, to the age of high imperialism and industrial capitalism. From a range of disciplinary perspectives, they consider how changing structures of sentiment and knowledge made possible new articulations between moral obligation, locality, the spaces of humanity, and the 'economic', but also the ways in which colonialism and imperialism re-framed and channelled impulses to ethical and humanitarian action. Ten essays, focusing mainly on British and German actors at home and overseas, are framed by a wide-ranging introduction and a reflection on the historical dimensions of current debates on slavery in business supply chains.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53588669432081,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53588669595921,"sku":"NIN9780192867858","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780192867858.jpg?v=1779542797"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-felix-brahm.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}