Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World: 5 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0520252063 ISBN 13: 9780520252066

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 2007

Riassunto

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Marcus Rediker is Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and author of The Slave Ship: A Human History. Cassandra Pybus is Research Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia, and author of Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Question for Liberty. Emma Christopher is an Australian Research Council Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia, and author of Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargos, 1730-1807.

Dalla quarta di copertina

"Extends the concept of the Middle Passage to encompass the expropriation of people across other maritime and inland routes. No previous book has highlighted the diversity and centrality of middle passages, voluntary and involuntary, to modern global history."—Kenneth Morgan, author of Slavery and the British Empire

"This volume extends the now well-established project of 'Atlantic World Studies' beyond its geographic and chronological frames to a genuinely global analysis of labour migration. It is a work of major importance that sparkles with new discoveries and insights."—Rick Halpern, co-editor of Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

"Extends the concept of the Middle Passage to encompass the expropriation of people across other maritime and inland routes. No previous book has highlighted the diversity and centrality of middle passages, voluntary and involuntary, to modern global history."Kenneth Morgan, author of Slavery and the British Empire

"This volume extends the now well-established project of 'Atlantic World Studies' beyond its geographic and chronological frames to a genuinely global analysis of labour migration. It is a work of major importance that sparkles with new discoveries and insights."Rick Halpern, co-editor of Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0520252063
• ISBN 13: 9780520252066
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 263
• Redattore: Christopher Emma, Pybus Cassandra, Rediker Marcus
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile