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.
This book - previously published as a special issue of the journal Slavery and Abolition - provides pioneering studies on the nature and structure of ...
The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day. Historian Edward A. Alpers explores the complex issues involved in cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean Rim region over the course of this long period of time by combining a historical approach with the insights of anthropology, art history, ethnomusicology, and geography. The Indian Ocean witnessed several significant diasporas during the past two millennia, including...
The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and aroun...
For centuries East Africa had an integral place within the Indian Ocean world. While slave trading, slave raiding and their consequences provide one thematic focus, this book looks at Indian Ocean commercial networks that were more complex in the range of
For centuries East Africa had an integral place within the Indian Ocean world. While slave trading, slave raiding and their consequences provide one t...
This book provides a series of pioneering studies, by experts in the field, on resistance to forms of bondage in Africa, Asia and the Indian Ocean world. It analyses the causes, duration and structure of resistance, from go-slows to flight, and theft to sabotage. It also examines the reaction to resistance by the propertied classes and assesses to what degree, if any, resistance was effective in alleviating the nature of bondage. The case studies, drawn from a wide spectrum of geographical areas and historical eras, underscore similarities and contrasts across the Africa-Asian regions....
This book provides a series of pioneering studies, by experts in the field, on resistance to forms of bondage in Africa, Asia and the Indian Ocean wor...
The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day. Historian Edward A. Alpers explores the complex issues involved in cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean Rim region over the course of this long period of time by combining a historical approach with the insights of anthropology, art history, ethnomusicology, and geography. The Indian Ocean witnessed several significant diasporas during the past two millennia, including...
The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and aroun...
This original collection brings islands to the fore in a growing body of scholarship on the Indian Ocean, examining them as hubs or points of convergence and divergence in a world of maritime movements and exchanges.
This original collection brings islands to the fore in a growing body of scholarship on the Indian Ocean, examining them as hubs or points of converge...
