Labor on the Fringes of Empire

Voice, Exit and the Law

By:

Alessandro Stanziani

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

January 31st, 2018

Author

Alessandro Stanziani

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

1st ed. 2018

Illustrations

7 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 334 p. 7 illus.

Pages

334

Series

Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies

ISBN-13

9783319703916

Product ID

27240353

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