Gwyn Campbell

Abolition and Its Aftermath in the Indian Ocean Africa and Asia

Herausgeber: Campbell, Gwyn

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Martin Hollis (d.1998) was arguably the most incisive, eloquent and witty philosopher of the social sciences of his time. His work is appreciated and contested here by some of the most eminent of contemporary social theorists. Hollis's philosophy of social action, routinely distinguished between understanding (rational) and explanation (causal). He argued that the aptest account of human interaction was to be made in terms of the first. Thus he focused upon the human reasons, for, rather than upon the natural causes of, action. This volume, for the first time, brings together important essays on the work of Hollis, from many different perspectives. These include politics, sociology and economics in general; international relations, rational choice theory, constitutionalism and the rule of law as well as current concerns with relativism, Rousseauist contractarianism, "dirty hands" and "buck-passing."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780714655031
• ISBN-10: 0714655031
• Artikelnr.: 21910942

Autorenporträt

Gwyn Campbell is a History Professor at McGill University. He initiated the series of Avignon conferences on Slavery and Forced Labour and has published widely on slavery, the slave trade and other aspects of forced labour including The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (Frank Cass, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Gwyn Campbell 2. Indian Ocean Slavery and its Demise in the
Cape Colony Nigel Worden 3. The Bel Ombre Rebellion: Indian convicts in
Mauritius, 1815-53 Clare Anderson 4. Abolition and its Aftermath in
Madagascar, 1877-1949 Gwyn Campbell 5. Abolition and its Impact on the
Benadir Coast Omar Eno 6. Slavery and the Slave Trade in Saudi Arabia and
the Persian Gulf States, 1920s-1960s Suzanne Miers 7. The "Shari'a and the
Anti-Slave Trade "Farman" of 1848 in Iran Behnaz Mirzai 8. The Slave Trade
and its Fallout in the Persian Gulf Abdul Sheriff, Advisor, Zanzibar
Museums 9. Abolition by Denial? Slavery in South Asia after 1843 Indrani
Chatterjee 10. Plantation Labour in the Brahmapura Valley: Regional
enclaves in a colonial context, 1881-1921 Keya Dasgupta 11. Colonialism,
Nationalism and the Meaning of Slavery: The genealogy of "an insult to the
American government and to the Filipino people" Michael Salman 12. Islamic
Attitudes towards the Abolition of the Slave Trade and Slavery in the
Indian Ocean, c1800-c1940 W.G. Clarence Smith 13. The Emancipation of
Slaves in the Indian Ocean Martin Klein