Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550–1850 : : Towards a Global History of Coerced Labour /

Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550–1850 : : Towards a Global History of Coerced Labour / / ed. by Kate Ekama, Lisa Hellman, Matthias van Rossum.

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The study of slavery and coerced labour is increasingly conducted from a global perspective, and yet a dual Eurocentric bias remains: slavery primarily brings to mind the images of Atlantic chattel slavery, and most studies continue to be based – either outright or implicitly – on a model of norther...

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MitwirkendeR:
Baby Paul, Vinil,
Chevaleyre, Claude,
Ekama, Kate,
Fujitani, James,
Ginés-Blasi, Mònica,
Hellman, Lisa,
Hägerdal, Hans,
Nicolaas, Samantha Sint,
Rossum, Matthias van,
Rupakheti, Sanjog,
Shahid, Amal,
Silva Ehalt, Rômulo da,
HerausgeberIn:
Ekama, Kate,
Hellman, Lisa,
Rossum, Matthias van,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Dependency and Slavery Studies , 3
Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 277 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • Opening Thoughts
  • Slavery and Labour Coercion in Asia – Towards a Global History
  • Reflections on Comparing and Connecting Regimes of Slavery and Coerced Labour
  • Beyond Maritime Asia. Ideology, Historiography, and Prospects for a Global History of Slaving in Early-Modern Asia
  • Coerced Mobilities
  • Maritime (Im)mobility: Reconstructing the Supply of Enslaved Labour to Batavia, 1624–1801
  • A Slave Economy in the East Indies: Seaborne Transportation of Slaves to the Banda Islands
  • The ‘Coolie Trade’ via Southeast Asia: Exporting Chinese Indentured Labourers to Cuba through the Spanish Philippines
  • Regimes
  • Boundaries of Bondage: Slavery and Enslaveability in VOC Ceylon
  • Government Slavery in Portuguese Melaka, 1511–1523
  • The Eastward Routes: Swedish Prisoners and Overlapping Regimes of Coercion in the Russian, Chinese and Dzungar Empires
  • Households, Family Politics, and Slavery in Nepal
  • Local Networks of the Slave Trade in Colonial Kerala
  • Transformations
  • Suspicion and Repression: Ming China, Tokugawa Japan, and the End of the Japanese-European Slave Trade (1614–1635)
  • Famine Labour and Coercion in Relief-based Public Works Construction in Colonial India in the Late Nineteenth Century
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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