UID:
almafu_9961984744902883
Umfang:
1 online resource (240 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9786613211774
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9781283211772
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1283211777
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9780812202427
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0812202422
Serie:
Critical histories
Inhalt:
When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of paying working wages to their former slaves. Cheaper labor existed elsewhere in the empire, however, and plantation owners, along with the home and colonial governments, quickly began importing the first of what would eventually be hundreds of thousands of indentured laborers from India. Madhavi Kale draws extensively on the archival materials from the period and argues that imperial administrators sanctioned and authorized distinctly biased accounts of postemancipation labor conditions and participated in devaluing and excluding alternative accounts of slavery. As she does this she highlights the ways in which historians, by relying on these biased sources, have perpetuated the acceptance of a privileged perspective on imperial British history.
Anmerkung:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Introduction. Casting Empire --
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1. Very Particularly Situated --
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2. Capitalists in the Neighborhood --
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3. Just a Minute --
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4. Where Are These Records ? --
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5. The "Saints" Come Marching In --
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6. Projecting Identities --
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7. Casting Labor in the Imperial Mold --
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Postscript --
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Notes --
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Bibliography --
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Index --
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Acknowledgments
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780812234671
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0812234677
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.9783/9780812202427
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