Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia: Bonds of Resistance

ISBN-13: 9780415360104 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 154 str.

Edward A. Alpers; Gwyn Campbell; Michael Salman

Opis

This book - previously published as a special issue of the journal Slavery and Abolition - provides pioneering studies on the nature and structure of resistance to forms of bondage in Africa, Asia and the Indian Ocean world.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction, Gwyn Campbell, Edward A. Alpers; Chapter 2 A Serious and Alarming Daily Evil, Richard B. Allen; Chapter 3 The Idea of Marronage, Edward A. Alpers; Chapter 4 Resisting Slavery in the Philippines, Michael Salman; Chapter 5 Korean Nobi Resistance under the Chosun Dynasty (1392–1910), Bok-Rae Kim; Chapter 6 Abolishing the Slave Trade in Portuguese India, Timothy Walker; Chapter 7 Slave Rebellion and Resistance in the Aden Protectorate in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Suzanne Miers; Chapter 8 Slaves, Brides and Other ‘Gifts’, Janet Hoskins; Chapter 9 Revolted but Not Revolting, Michael Lambek;

O autorze

Edward A. Alpers is Professor of History at UCLA. He has published Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa, and co-edited Walter Rodney: Revolutionary and Scholar, Africa and the West, and History, Memory and Identity. He is Past President of the African Studies Association.
Gwyn Campbell Maitre de Conferences at the University of Avignon, has published widely on the economic history of the Indian Ocean world including Africa and the Indian Ocean World from early times to 1900.
Michael Salman is Associate Professor of History at UCLA. He is the author of The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies Over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines.