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Slavery and bondage in Asia, 1550-1850 : towards a global history of coerced labour /

The study of slavery and coerced labour is increasingly conducted from a global perspective, and yet a dual Eurocentric bias remains: slavery primarily brings to mind the images of Atlantic chattel slavery, and most studies continue to be based - either outright or implicitly - on a model of norther...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ekama, Kate (Editor ), Hellman, Lisa (Editor ), Rossum, Matthias van, 1984- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2022.
Colección:Dependency and slavery studies ; 3.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • Opening Thoughts
  • Slavery and Labour Coercion in Asia
  • Towards a Global History
  • Reflections on Comparing and Connecting Regimes of Slavery and Coerced Labour
  • Beyond Maritime Asia. Ideology, Historiography, and Prospects for a Global History of Slaving in Early-Modern Asia
  • Coerced Mobilities
  • Maritime (Im)mobility: Reconstructing the Supply of Enslaved Labour to Batavia, 1624-1801
  • A Slave Economy in the East Indies: Seaborne Transportation of Slaves to the Banda Islands
  • The 'Coolie Trade' via Southeast Asia: Exporting Chinese Indentured Labourers to Cuba through the Spanish Philippines
  • Regimes
  • Boundaries of Bondage: Slavery and Enslaveability in VOC Ceylon
  • Government Slavery in Portuguese Melaka, 1511-1523
  • The Eastward Routes: Swedish Prisoners and Overlapping Regimes of Coercion in the Russian, Chinese and Dzungar Empires
  • Households, Family Politics, and Slavery in Nepal
  • Local Networks of the Slave Trade in Colonial Kerala
  • Transformations
  • Suspicion and Repression: Ming China, Tokugawa Japan, and the End of the Japanese-European Slave Trade (1614-1635)
  • Famine Labour and Coercion in Relief-based Public Works Construction in Colonial India in the Late Nineteenth Century
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index