Rather than using dueling quotations, perhaps Louis for some of the
other heavy hitters in this debate should tell us what is so important.
To me, it sounds sort of dogmatic to rule out either the importance of
slavery or of internal social relations within Britain. Perhaps it
would be similar
Michael Perelman wrote:
Rather than using dueling quotations, perhaps Louis for some of the
other heavy hitters in this debate should tell us what is so important.
It is important to link slavery with the rise of capitalism as people like
Karl Marx, Eric Williams and Robin Blackburn do. In Ellen
Lou, I have been criticized, and rightly so, for not having enough about
discrimination and race in my Pathology book. I don't know that that
diminishes the parts that I did discuss.
In fact, I can be criticized further concentrating on the U.S. economy, which
better than some other subjects.
Lou, both seem to have been investigating the origins of capitalism, without
saying that external factors were not important. They were just exploring the
importance of one side of the equation, even saying that they gave it the
primary role; but not excluding slavery. If I read this wrong,
