Labor on the Fringes of Empire

Voice, Exit and the Law

Alessandro Stanziani (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XIII, 334 Seiten

2019 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-88930-6 (ISBN)

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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, plantation and judicial archives, Alessandro Stanziani investigates the evolution of labor relationships on the Indian subcontinent, the Indian Ocean and Africa, with case studies on Assam, the Mascarene Islands and the French Congo. He finds surprising relationships between African and Indian abolition movements and European labor practices, inviting readers to think in terms of trans-oceanic connections rather than simple oppositions. Above all, he considers how the meaning and practices of freedom in the colonial world differed profoundly from those in the mainland. Arguing for a multi-centered view of imperial dynamics, Labor on the Fringes of Empire is a pioneering global historyof nineteenth-century labor.

Alessandro Stanziani is Professor of Global History at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) at PSL Research University, France. He has authored seven books and more than 130 peer reviewed articles and edited eight books.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2019
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 334 p. 7 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	451 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	abolition of slavery • African abolition movement • Assam • colonial slavery • French Congo • glocal history • history of labor • history of slavery • Human Rights • Indian abolition movement • Indian Ocean • Indian Ocean slavery • labor in France and Britain • Labor Law • labor rights • Maritime History • Mascarene Islands • Welfare in the colonies
ISBN-10	3-319-88930-3 / 3319889303
ISBN-13	978-3-319-88930-6 / 9783319889306
Zustand	Neuware