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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Year of Publication: | 2015 |
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Physical Description: | x, 211 Seiten; Karten |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Reilly, Benjamin 1971- (DE-588)143476629 aut Slavery, agriculture, and malaria in the Arabian Peninsula Benjamin Reilly Athens, Ohio Ohio University Press [2015] x, 211 Seiten Karten txt n nc 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".. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery / bisacsh HISTORY / General / bisacsh 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 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery HISTORY / General Arabian Peninsula Environmental conditions History Arabien g (DE-588)4002529-9 Malaria s (DE-588)4037197-9 Landwirtschaft s (DE-588)4034402-2 Sklaverei s (DE-588)4055260-3 Geschichte z AT-OBV BVB YWSAN ISA-1 KfSA-3132 2222071760004498 |
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