Fragments of Empire : : Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean / / Madhavi Kale.
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 bega...
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Kale, Madhavi, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fragments of Empire : Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean / Madhavi Kale. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2010] ©1998 1 online resource (240 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Critical Histories Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Casting Empire -- 1. Very Particularly Situated -- 2. Capitalists in the Neighborhood -- 3. Just a Minute -- 4. Where Are These Records ? -- 5. The "Saints" Come Marching In -- 6. Projecting Identities -- 7. Casting Labor in the Imperial Mold -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020) African Studies. Asian Studies. Caribbean Studies. European History. History. Latin American Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Middle Eastern. World History. HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package American History 9783110413496 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) 9783110442526 print 9780812234671 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812202427 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812202427 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812202427.jpg |
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