Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia: Bonds of Resistance

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.

Author: Edward A. Alpers
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/01/2009
Pages: 146
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.33d
ISBN: 9780415875813

About the Author

Edward A. Alpers is Professor of History at UCLA. He has published Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa, and co-edited Walter Rodney: Revolutionary and Scholar, Africa and the West, and History, Memory and Identity. He is Past President of the African Studies Association.
Gwyn Campbell Maitre de Conferences at the University of Avignon, has published widely on the economic history of the Indian Ocean world including Africa and the IndianOcean World from early times to 1900.
Michael Salman is Associate Professor of History at UCLA. He is the author of The Embarrassment of Slavery: ControversiesOver Bondage and Nationalism in the American ColonialPhilippines.