Abolitions As a Global Experience - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9971698609 ISBN 13: 9789971698607

Verlag: NUS Press, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The abolition of slavery and similar institutions of servitude was an important global experience of the nineteenth century. Considering how tightly bonded into each local society and economy were these institutions, why and how did people decide to abolish them? This collection of essays examines the ways this globally shared experience appeared and developed. Chapters cover a variety of different settings, from West Africa to East Asia, the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean, with close consideration of the British, French and Dutch colonial contexts, as well as internal developments in Russia and Japan. What elements of the abolition decision were due to international pressure, and which to local factors? Furthermore, this collection does not solely focus on the moment of formal abolition, but looks hard at the aftermath of abolition, and also at the ways abolition was commemorated and remembered in later years.

This book complicates the conventional story that global abilition was essentially a British moralizing effort, "among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations". Using comparison and connection, this book tells a story of dynamic encounters between local and global contexts, of which the local efforts of British abolition campaigns were a part.

Looking at abolitions as a globally shared experience provides an important perspective, not only to the field of slavery and abolition studies, but also the field of global or world history.

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Hideaki Suzuki is associate professor at School of Global Humanities and Social Sciences, Nagasaki University, Japan and works on Indian Ocean World History and global/world history.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: NUS Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9971698609
• ISBN 13: 9789971698607
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Herausgeber: Suzuki Hideaki
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande