Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550–1850

Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550–1850The study of slavery and coerced labour is increasingly conducted from a global perspective, and yet a dual Eurocentric bias remains: slavery primarily brings to mind the images of Atlantic chattel slavery, and most studies continue to be based either outright or implicitly on a model of northern European wage labour. This book constitutes an attempt to re centre that story to Asia. With studies spanning the western Indian Ocean and the steppes of

The book discusses the growing presence of Non-Brahmins and Adi-Dravidas in education and political life

and the South American landscape itself becomes a stage for prophecy

insbesondere in den Bereichen der Migration

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and are also exposed to the long-term threat of global sea-level rise

Evergates concludes that imposed models of "the aristocratic family" fail to capture the diversity of individual lives and lineages within one of the more vibrant principalities of medieval France

Jerusalem is more than a holy city built of stone

and cluster analysis is such a method

Stets nahe an der herrschenden Meinung

This collection of articles presents data-oriented studies that integrate modern and traditional approaches in the field

layered with nearly two thousand pounds of paint

Face masks have also been worn to make political statements: bearing anti-racist statements