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Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia
Klein
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Paperback. Deals with emancipation in African and Asian societies which were either colonised or came under the domination of European powers in the 19th century. In these societies, emancipation involved the imposition on non-European societies of a European view of slavery, and a free labour ideology. Editor(s): Klein, Martin A. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 1H; 3JH; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR; HBTS; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Because the American history of slavery and emancipation tends to be foremost in Western minds, few realise that traditional forms of servitude still exist in a variety of places around the world: children are sold on the streets of Bangkok, bondage persists in India despite official efforts to abolish it and, until 1980, slavery was legal in Mauritania. ""Breaking the Chains"" deals with emancipation in African and Asian societies which were either colonised or came under the domination of European powers in the 19th century. In these societies, emancipation involved the imposition on non-European societies of an explicitly European discourse ... Read more
Because the American history of slavery and emancipation tends to be foremost in Western minds, few realise that traditional forms of servitude still exist in a variety of places around the world: children are sold on the streets of Bangkok, bondage persists in India despite official efforts to abolish it and, until 1980, slavery was legal in Mauritania. ""Breaking the Chains"" deals with emancipation in African and Asian societies which were either colonised or came under the domination of European powers in the 19th century. In these societies, emancipation involved the imposition on non-European societies of an explicitly European discourse ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Wisconsin, United States
ISBN
9780299137540
SKU
V9780299137540
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