Research Catalog

Title

Bonded labour and debt in the Indian Ocean world / edited by Gywn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani.

Publication

• London : Pickering & Chatto, c2013.
• ©2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Campbell, Gwyn, 1952-
• Stanziani, Alessandro

Description

xiii, 240 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"In the area running from east Africa to China slavery has always played a significant role. Even today there are up to twenty-seven million people enslaved in some form of bonded labour. This volume of essays contains case studies of debt bondage covering the impact of an expanding globalized economy, increased commercialization, colonial and post-colonial societies and emerging economies."--pub. desc.

Series Statement

Financial history ; no. 23

Uniform Title

Financial history (London, England) no. 23.

Subject

• Peonage > Indian Ocean Region > Case studies
• Schuldknechtschaft
• Indischer Ozean > Region

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Debt and the coercion of labour in the Islamic legal tradition / William G. Clarence-Smith -- Debt, pawnship and slavery in nineteenth-century East Africa / Edward A. Alpers -- Debt and slavery in imperial Madagascar, 1790-1861 / Gwyn Campbell -- Credit and debt in the lives of freed slaves at the Cape of Good Hope : the case of Arnoldus Koevoet, 1697-1735 / Susan Newton-King -- Debt, labour and bondage : English servants versus indentured immigrants in Mauritius, from the late eighteenth to early twentieth century / Alessandro Stanziani -- Ransom, escape and debt repayment in the Sulu zone, 1750-1898 / James Francis Warren -- Debt and slavery among Arabian Gulf pearl divers / Matthew S. Hopper -- The political economy of debt bondage in contemporary south India / Isabelle Guérin -- The name of the slave and the quality of the debt : when slaves are not debtors and debtors are not slaves in the family narrative of a Filipina comfort woman / Michael Salman -- Two bonded labour emigration patterns in mid-nineteenth-century southern China : the coolie trade and emigration to Southeast Asia / Ei Murakami -- Debt slaves in old Korea / Bok-rae Kim -- The debt-servitude of prostitutes in Japan during the Edo period, 1600-1868 / Yoko Matsui.

ISBN

• 9781848933781 (hbk.)
• 1848933789 (hbk.)
• 9781781440186 (PDF ebook)
• 1781440182 (PDF ebook)

OCLC

• 839317287
• SCSB-12701278

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library