Sascha Auerbach

The Overseer State

Slavery, Indenture and Governance in the British Empire, 1812-1916

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Produktbeschreibung

"In a compelling new take on the legacies of slavery, Sascha Auerbach explores the origins of the 'global labor market' in the wake of abolition. He recounts the experiences of those shipped across oceans on false pretences and forced to labor under appalling conditions, arguing that their struggles were ultimately key to the system's destruction"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge-Hitachi
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009315791
• ISBN-10: 100931579X
• Artikelnr.: 70470266

Autorenporträt

Sascha Auerbach is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham and a former Fullbright Scholar and Leverhulme Trust Fellow. He is the author of Armed with Sword and Scales (2022) and Race, Law and 'The Chinese Puzzle' in Imperial Britain (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Maps and Tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Paper Chains for Iron Chains; 1. 'Not Fit for the Enjoyment of Freedo': Amelioration and the Origins of the Overseer-State
1812-1834; 2. 'To Go and Look for Law': Early Responses to the Overseer-State
1823-1836; 3. 'A Most Imperfect Act of Abolition': Apprenticeship and Early Indenture in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds
1834-1842; 4. 'A System Entirely Favourable to the Poorer Class of Natives': Health
Moral Reform
and Coercion in the Indenture System
1840-1864; 5. Man
In His Natural State ... Must Either be Led by Conviction
or by Force': Magistrates
Workers' Agency
and State Violence
1840-1873; 6. 'They Must Know Their Master
and He Must Know Them': Labor Governance and Sovereignty on the Imperial Frontier in Southeast Asia
1867-1890; 7. 'They Have Made the Government Arbitrary Enough': The Decline of the Overseer-State
1870-1904; Conclusion: The Persistent Legacies of the Overseer-State; Bibliography; Index.