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 sl...

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Weitere Verfasser: Christopher, Emma (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley u.a. Univ. of California Press 2007
Schriftenreihe:˜Theœ California world history library 5
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Zusammenfassung:"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, which continues unabated to this day. At the same time, these essays highlight the forms of resistance and cultural creativity that have emerged from this violent history. Together, the essays accomplish what no single author could provide: a truly global context for understanding the experience of men, women, and children forced into the violent and alienating experience of bonded labor in a strange new world. This pioneering volume also begins to chart a new role of the sea as a key site where history is made." -- Publisher's description.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:X, 263 S.
ISBN:9780520252073
978-0-520-25207-3
9780520252066
978-0-520-25206-6