ISBN:
9781137448453
,
1137448458
Language:
English
Pages:
188 S.
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
Palgrave series in Indian Ocean world studies
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg.
DDC:
331.11/73409182409034
Keywords:
Sailors History 19th century
;
Slaves History 19th century
;
Immigrants History 19th century
;
Indentured servants History 19th century
;
Slavery History 19th century
;
Labor History 19th century
;
Social change History 19th century
;
Sailors History
;
19th century
;
Indian Ocean Region
;
Slaves History
;
19th century
;
Indian Ocean Region
;
Immigrants History
;
19th century
;
Indian Ocean Region
;
Indentured servants History
;
19th century
;
Indian Ocean Region
;
Slavery History
;
19th century
;
Indian Ocean Region
;
Labor History
;
19th century
;
Indian Ocean Region
;
Social change History
;
19th century
;
Indian Ocean Region
;
Europe Colonies 19th century
;
History
;
Indian Ocean History, Naval 19th century
;
Indian Ocean Region Social conditions 19th century
;
Europe Colonies
;
History
;
19th century
;
Indian Ocean Region
;
Indian Ocean History, Naval
;
19th century
;
Indian Ocean Region Social conditions
;
19th century
;
Frankreich
;
Großbritannien
;
Kolonie
;
Indischer Ozean Region
;
Einwanderung
;
Sklaverei
;
Schuldknechtschaft
;
Seemann
;
Geschichte 1750-1914
Abstract:
"Slaves, convicts, indentured immigrants, and unfree seamen have traveled the world's oceans at many times and places throughout human history. Across the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, this bondage took divergent forms and exhibited a range of historical dynamics. In spite of this variety, the conventional Atlantic World historical paradigm has largely shaped our understanding of modernity as being defined by exploration and discovery, European dominance, global capitalism, and the transition from slavery to free labor. Not only does this perspective evince a Eurocentric emphasis on the 'uniqueness' of the West, but it is increasingly contested even for the Atlantic itself. This provocative study contrasts the romantic conflation of freedom and the sea with the complex labor relationships of seamen, slaves, and immigrants in the Indian Ocean during the long nineteenth century. In the process, it advances a new framework for understanding labor, bondage, and modernization"--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
"Slaves, convicts, indentured immigrants, and unfree seamen have traveled the world's oceans at many times and places throughout human history. Across the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, this bondage took divergent forms and exhibited a range of historical dynamics. In spite of this variety, the conventional Atlantic World historical paradigm has largely shaped our understanding of modernity as being defined by exploration and discovery, European dominance, global capitalism, and the transition from slavery to free labor. Not only does this perspective evince a Eurocentric emphasis on the 'uniqueness' of the West, but it is increasingly contested even for the Atlantic itself. This provocative study contrasts the romantic conflation of freedom and the sea with the complex labor relationships of seamen, slaves, and immigrants in the Indian Ocean during the long nineteenth century. In the process, it advances a new framework for understanding labor, bondage, and modernization"--Provided by publisher
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: The scope and aim; coercion and rights at sea; global dynamics; plan of the bookColonial studies, area studies and the historical meaning of the Indian Ocean -- Seamen in France and the French Empire : heirs to the galley slave or forerunners of the social security system? -- Sailors in the British Empire -- Slaveries and emancipation -- Immigrants and planters in the Reunion Island -- From British servants to indentured immigrants : the case of Mauritius -- General conclusion -- Archives -- Printed sources.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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