"Monsoon rains, winds, and currents have shaped patterns of production and exchange in the Indian Ocean world (IOW) for centuries. Consequently, as this volume demonstrates, the environment has also played a central role in determining the region’s systems of bondage and human trafficking. Cont...

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1. Verfasser:	Campbell, Gwyn 1952- (VerfasserIn, HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Karte
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cham, Switzerland Palgrave Macmillan [2018]
Schriftenreihe:	Palgrave series in Indian Ocean world studies
Schlagworte:	Geschichte Human ecology Slave labor Slavery Schuldknechtschaft Menschenhandel Umweltfaktor Indian Ocean Region Indischer Ozean > Region Slavery / History / Indian Ocean Region Slave labor / History / Indian Ocean Region Human ecology / Indian Ocean Region Human beings / Effect of environment on / History / Indian Ocean Region Aufsatzsammlung
Zusammenfassung:	"Monsoon rains, winds, and currents have shaped patterns of production and exchange in the Indian Ocean world (IOW) for centuries. Consequently, as this volume demonstrates, the environment has also played a central role in determining the region’s systems of bondage and human trafficking. Contributors trace intricate links between environmental forces, human suffering, and political conditions, examining how they have driven people into servile labour and shaped the IOW economy. They illuminate the complexities of IOW bondage with case studies, drawn chiefly from the mid-eighteenth century, on Sudan, Cape Colony, Réunion, China, and beyond, where chattel slavery (as seen in the Atlantic world) represented only one extreme of a wide spectrum of systems of unfree labour. The array of factors examined here, including climate change, environmental disaster, disease, and market forces, are central to IOW history--and to modern-day forms of human bondage."--
Beschreibung:	xiii, 304 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 22 cm
ISBN:	3319700278