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Sailors, slaves, and immigrants : bondage in the Indian Ocean world, 1750-1914

Stanziani, Alessandro

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\"Slaves, convicts, indentured immigrants, and unfree seamen have traveled the world's oceans at many times and places throughout human history. Across the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, this bondage took divergent forms and exhibited a range of historical dynamics. In spite of this variety, the conventional Atlantic World historical paradigm has largely shaped our understanding of modernity as being defined by exploration and discovery, European dominance, global capitalism, and the transition from slavery to free labor. Not only does this perspective evince a Eurocentric emphasis on the 'uniqueness' of the West, but it is increasingly contested even for the Atlantic itself. This provocative study contrasts the romantic conflation of freedom and the sea with the complex labor relationships of seamen, slaves, and immigrants in the Indian Ocean during the long nineteenth century. In the process, it advances a new framework for understanding labor, bondage, and modernization\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Sailors Indian Ocean Region History 19th century. / Slaves Indian Ocean Region History 19th century. / Immigrants Indian Ocean Region History 19th century. / Indentured servants Indian Ocean Region History 19th century. / Slavery Indian Ocean Region History 19th century. / Labor Indian Ocean Region History 19th century. / Social change Indian Ocean Region History 19th century. / Europe Colonies Indian Ocean Region History 19th century. / Indian Ocean History, Naval 19th century. / Indian Ocean Region Social conditions 19th century.
• ISBN: 9781137448453, 1137448458

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