Many middle passages : forced migration and the making of the modern world /
This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned international scholars trace the history of slaves,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2007.
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Colección: | California world history library ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned international scholars trace the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans. They depict the cruelty of the captivity, torture, terror, and death involved in the shipping of human cargo over the waterways of the world, whi. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 263 pages) : maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780520940987 0520940989 0520252063 9780520252066 0520252071 9780520252073 9781435601925 1435601920 |