Slavery, agriculture, and malaria in the Arabian Peninsula / / Benjamin Reilly.
"In Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key to understanding this unusual system, Rei...
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Reilly, Benjamin, 1971- author. Slavery, agriculture, and malaria in the Arabian Peninsula / Benjamin Reilly. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2015] 2015 1 online resource (165 pages) : illustrations. text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Ohio University Press series in ecology and history Includes bibliographical references and index. "In Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key to understanding this unusual system, Reilly argues, is the prevalence of malaria within Arabian Peninsula oases and drainage basins, which rendered agricultural lands in Arabia extremely unhealthy for people without genetic or acquired resistance to malarial fevers. In this way, Arabian slave agriculture had unexpected similarities to slavery as practiced in the Caribbean and Brazil. This book synthesizes for the first time a body of historical and ethnographic data about slave-based agriculture in the Arabian Peninsula. Reilly uses an innovative methodology to analyze the limited historical record and a multidisciplinary approach to complicate our understandings of the nature of work in an area that is popularly thought of solely as desert. This work makes significant contributions both to the global literature on slavery and to the environmental history of the Middle East--an area that has thus far received little attention from scholars"-- Provided by publisher. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. Slavery Arabian Peninsula History. Africans Arabian Peninsula History. Slaves Arabian Peninsula History. Agricultural laborers Arabian Peninsula History. Malaria Social aspects Arabian Peninsula History. Agriculture Health aspects Arabian Peninsula History. Agriculture Social aspects Arabian Peninsula History. Agriculture Environmental aspects Arabian Peninsula History. Oases Arabian Peninsula History. Arabian Peninsula Environmental conditions History. Electronic books. Print version: Reilly, Benjamin. Slavery, agriculture, and malaria in the Arabian Peninsula. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2015] Ohio University Press series in ecology and history 9780821421819 ProQuest (Firm) Ohio University Press series in ecology and history. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/oeawat/detail.action?docID=4050755 Click to View |
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