Labor on the Fringes of Empire Voice, Exit and the Law /

After the abolition of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Africa, the world of labor remained unequal, exploitative, and violent, straddling a fine line between freedom and unfreedom. This book explains why. Unseating the Atlantic paradigm of bondage and drawing from a rich array of colonial, estate, p...

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1. Verfasser: Stanziani, Alessandro (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schriftenreihe:Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
Schlagworte:
History, Modern.
World history.
Labor-History.
Imperialism.
Europe-History.
Social history.
ISBN:9783319703923
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Introduction: Progress and (un)freedom
  • 2. Coercion, Resistance and Voice
  • 3. Utilitarianism and the Abolition of Slavery in India
  • 4. Slavery, Abolition and the Contractarian Approach to the Indian Ocean. The Case of Mauritius
  • 5. How do you say "free" in French?
  • 6. The Welfare State and the Colonial World, 1880-1914. The Case of French Equatorial Africa
  • 7. Conclusion. Voice, Exit and the Law in Historical Perspective.

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