Working Spaces

The Anthropology Department presents:

Working Spaces: Environment, Material Production and Slave Plantation Landscapes in Nineteenth Century Mississippi, Cuba, and Brazil

The presentation examines how the expansion of the world-economy and the botanical economy of cotton, sugar, and coffee created distinctive slave plantation landscapes in nineteenth century Mississippi, Cuba, and Brazil.

About the speaker:

Dale Tomich, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University

Dale Tomich received his PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and former Deputy Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations.