Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World - Couverture souple

Christopher, Emma; Pybus, Cassandra; Rediker, Marcus

 
9780520252073: Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0520252071 ISBN 13 : 9780520252073
Editeur : University of California Press, 2007

Synopsis

This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned international scholars trace the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans. They depict the cruelty of the captivity, torture, terror, and death involved in the shipping of human cargo over the waterways of the world, which continues unabated to this day. At the same time, these essays highlight the forms of resistance and cultural creativity that have emerged from this violent history. Together, the essays accomplish what no single author could provide: a truly global context for understanding the experience of men, women, and children forced into the violent and alienating experience of bonded labor in a strange new world. This pioneering volume also begins to chart a new role of the sea as a key site where history is made.

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À propos de l?auteur

Marcus Rediker is Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh and author of The Slave Ship: A Human History. Cassandra Pybus is Research Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia, and author of Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Question for Liberty. Emma Christopher is an Australian Research Council Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia, and author of Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargos, 1730-1807.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520252071
ISBN 13 
9780520252073
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
274
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780520252066: Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World

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ISBN 10 :  0520252063 ISBN 13 :  9780520252066
Editeur : University of California Press, 2007
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