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  • Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants

    Bondage in the Indian Ocean World, 1750–1914

    by A. Stanziani ...
    Series series History (R0)
    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. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Labor on the Fringes of Empire

    Voice, Exit and the Law

    Series series History (R0)
    After the abolition of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Africa, the world of labor remained unequal, exploitative, and violent, straddling a fine line between freedom and unfreedom. This book explains why. Unseating the Atlantic paradigm of bondage and drawing from a rich array of colonial, estate, plantation and judicial archives, Alessandro Stanziani investigates the evolution of labor ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Bondage

    Labor and Rights in Eurasia from the Sixteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries

    Series Book 24 - International Studies in Social History
    For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, and compares the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those of domestic servants. This gave rise to extreme forms of dependency in the colonies, ... Read more

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  • After Oriental Despotism

    Eurasian Growth in a Global Perspective

    The concepts of economic backwardness, Asiatic despotism and orientalism have strongly influenced perceptions of modernization, democracy and economic growth over the last three centuries. This book provides an original view of Russian and Asian history that views both in a global perspective. Via this analysis, Alessandro Stanziani opens new dimensions in the study of state formation, the global ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Earth Capital

    The Long History of Capitalism and Its Aftermath

    This book is a major new history of capitalism that takes account of the material and ecological underpinnings of productive activity as well as the social, political and institutional dimensions of economic life. It retraces the history of capitalism over a long time period, giving particular attention to the role of food, agriculture, energy and natural resources, and with an eye to the future, ... Read more

    $28.00 USD

  • Rules of Exchange

    French Capitalism in Comparative Perspective, Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries

    The control of competition is designed, at best, to reconcile socioeconomic stability with innovation, and at worst, to keep competitors out of the market. In this respect, the nineteenth century was no more liberal than the eighteenth century. Even during the presumed liberal nineteenth century, legal regulation played a major role in the economy, and the industrial revolution was based on market ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Tensions of Social History

    Sources, Data, Actors and Models in Global Perspective

    Series series Global History: European Perspectives and Approaches
    This book seeks to overcome the tension between 'western' and 'non-western' categories and tools in the study of global history, showing how most western approaches to the social sciences and history have developed through transnational and colonial interactions.Offering a transnational and global history of the main tools we have to understand the word and its transformations over the last three ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Empires of Labor

    Coercion and the Making of the Modern World

    From the seventeenth century to the First World War, both free and unfree labor were essential for building an empire. This ambitious study examines the relationship between capitalism and coercion across the British, French and Russian empires throughout centuries of economic transformation. Overturning conventional explanations of serfdom, slavery, indentured migration and wage labor, Alessandro ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Eurocentrism and the Politics of Global History

    Series series History (R0)
    Global history locates national histories in the context of broader processes, in which the West is not necessarily synonymous with progress. And yet it often suffers from the same Eurocentrism that plagues national history, accepting Western categories and values uncritically and largely ignoring non-English historiographies. Alessandro Stanziani examines these tensions and asks what global ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Bondage and Human Rights in Africa and Asia

    Series series History (R0)
    In the West, human bondage remains synonymous with the Atlantic slave trade. But large slave systems in Africa and Asia predated, co-existed, and overlapped with the Atlantic system—and have persisted in modified forms well into the twenty-first century, posing major threats to political and economic stability within those regions and worldwide. This handbook examines the deep historical roots of ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

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    by Glenda Sluga ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    The twentieth century, a time of profound disillusionment with nationalism, was also the great age of internationalism. To the twenty-first-century historian, the period from the late nineteenth century until the end of the Cold War is distinctive for its nationalist preoccupations, while internationalism is often construed as the purview of ideologues and idealists, a remnant of Enlightenment-era ... Read more

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  • Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights

    Did the history of human rights begin decades, centuries or even millennia ago? What constitutes this history? And what can we really learn from 'the textbook narrative' - the unilinear, forward-looking tale of progress and inevitable triumph authored primarily by Western philosophers, politicians and activists? Does such a distinguishable entity as 'the history of human rights' even exist, or are ... Read more

    $43.49 USD