Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants: Bondage in the Indian Ocean World, 1750-1914

Slaves, convicts, and unfree immigrants have traveled the oceans throughout human history, but the conventional Atlantic World historical paradigm has narrowed our understanding of modernity. This provocative study contrasts the Atlantic conflation of freedom and the sea with the complex relationships in the Indian Ocean in the long 19th century.

Author: A. Stanziani
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/04/2014
Pages: 188
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781137448453

About the Author

Alessandro Stanziani is Professor of Global history at the EHESS, France, and Research Director at CNRS, France.