Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 263 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780520252073
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9780520252066
Series Statement:
California World History Library v.5
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Other Middle Passage: the African Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean; 2. The East African Middle Passage: David Livingstone, the Zambesi Expedition, and Lake Nyassa, 1858--1866; 3. The Iranun and Balangingi Slaving Voyage: Middle Passages in the Sulu Zone; 4. The Voyage Out: Peter Kolb and Voc Voyages to the Cape; 5. Bound for Botany Bay: John Martin's Voyage to Australia; 6. "The Slave Trade is Merciful Compared to [this]": Slave Traders, Convict Transportation, and the Abolitionists; 7. Convict Passages in the Indian Ocean c. 1790--1860
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8. After Slavery: Forced Drafts of Irish and Chinese Labor in the American Civil War, or the Search for Liquid Labor9. LA TRATA AMARILLA: the "Yellow Trade" and the Middle Passage, 1847--1884; 10. "A Most Irregular Traffic": the Oceanic Passages of the Melanesian Labor Trade; 11. LA TRAITE DES JAUNES: Trafficking in Women and Children across the China Sea; Afterword : "All of It Is Now"; Postscript: GUN--SLAVE CYCLE; Appendix; Contributors; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520252073
Additional Edition:
Print version Many Middle Passages : Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World
Language:
English
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