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SUMMARY:Canoes and capitalism: an indigenous technology in the early Engli
 sh Caribbean - Nuala Zahedieh\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Amy Erickson
DESCRIPTION:Current consensus is that the rise of the Atlantic plantation 
 system\, with its brutal exploitation of enslaved labour\, was important i
 n the making of modern capitalism. Yet there is poor understanding of the 
 processes by which the European invaders built the economic and social cap
 abilities necessary to extract wealth from the Caribbean’s alien environ
 ment or capitalism’s related debt to indigenous technologies. This paper
  uses a wide range of qualitative and quantitative sources (travel account
 s\, government records\, naval and Admiralty Court records\, and probate i
 nventories) to examine the production\, and use\, of dugout canoes and the
 ir role in local resource extraction and trading networks. It shows that\,
  as Europeans adapted indigenous technologies\, they were able to construc
 t the economic and social infrastructure that underpinned the rise of the 
 Atlantic plantation system\, slavery\, and merchant capitalism. 
LOCATION:History Faculty Room 11
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