ISBN:
9781848933781
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (255 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Serie:
Financial History
Paralleltitel:
Print version Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World
DDC:
306.363091824
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
This volume of essays contains case studies of debt bondage covering the impact of an expanding globalized economy, increased commercialization, colonial and post-colonial societies, and emerging economies
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Introduction; 1. Debt and the Coercion of Labour in the Islamic Legal Tradition; 2. Debt, Pawnship and Slavery in Nineteenth-Century East Africa; 3. Debt and Slavery in Imperial Madagascar, 1790-1861; 4. Credit and Debt in the Lives of Freed Slaves at the Cape of Good Hope; 5. Debt, Labour and Bondage; 6. Ransom, Escape and Debt Repayment in the Sulu Zone, 1750-1898; 7. Debt and Slavery among Arabian Gulf Pearl Divers; 8. Th e Political Economy of Debt Bondage in Contemporary South India; 9. The Name of the Slave and the Quality of the Debt
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
10. Two Bonded Labour Emigration Patterns11. Debt Slaves in Old Korea; 12. The Debt-Servitude of Prostitutes in Japan during the Edo Period; Notes; Index
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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