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From Slave Trade to Empire
Much has been written about the origins of the great push which led Europe to colonise sub-Saharan Africa at the end of the nineteenth century. This book provides a new perspective on this controversial subject by focussing on Europe and a range of empire-building states: Germany, France, Italy and Portugal. The essays in this volume consider economic themes in addition to the political and cultural aspects of the transition from commerce to colonies.
A Deus ex Machina Revisited
This volume of essays provides a fresh and innovative look at colonial trade and its impact on economic development in Europe. It is unique in its coverage of countries that are usually ignored, such as Denmark and Sweden, while also including in its chronology more than the 18th century alone.
Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World
The twelve essays explore three connected aspects of European expansion in the period between 1500 and 1900 - migration, trade, and slavery - with some attention given to present-day echoes from that era. The book's first section deals with European migration to transatlantic and Asian destinations, the second and third sections focus on the Atlantic slave trade and representations of slavery, and the final section analyzes the demise and legacy of slavery. The authors reach surprising conclusions: European expansion did not entail major economic benefits; the small scale of the Europeans' intercontinental migration never jeopardized their colonial projects; and the unique popular nature of British abolitionism can be explained in part by the growth of the newspaper press in the mid-eighteenth century, which regularly reported about slave ship revolts.
Slave Systems
A ground-breaking edited collection charting the rise and fall of forms of unfree labour in the ancient Mediterranean and in the modern Atlantic, employing the methodology of comparative history. The eleven chapters in the book deal with conceptual issues and different approaches to historical comparison, and include specific case-studies ranging from the ancient forms of slavery of classical Greece and of the Roman empire to the modern examples of slavery that characterised the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. The results demonstrate both how much the modern world has inherited from the ancient in regard to ideology and practice of slavery; and also how many of the issues and problems related to the latter seem to have been fundamentally similar across time and space.
Les traites négrières. Essai d'histoire globale
Monstrueuse, la matière de ce livre l'est, pour deux raisons. Le sujet, d'abord : le trafic d'hommes noirs, infâme trafic jusque dans les justifications qu'on a voulu lui trouver. Monstrueuse aussi, son étendue dans l'espace, de l'Afrique à la Méditerranée orientale puis de l'Afrique aux Amériques ; et dans le temps, puisque cette histoire est longue de près de quatorze siècles. Il fallait à Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau, pour maîtriser dans sa totalité l'étude de ce trafic et l'ériger en objet historique, une approche globale, qui mettrait en relation l'histoire de l'esclavage avec d'autres domaines de la recherche historique - histoire des idées, des comportements, de l'indus...
Les traites négrières
Monstrueuse, la matière de ce livre l'est, pour deux raisons. Le sujet, d'abord : le trafic d'hommes noirs, " infâme trafic " jusque dans les justifications qu'on a voulu lui trouver, philosophiques, religieuses, économiques, politiques. Monstrueuse aussi, son étendue dans l'espace, de l'Afrique à la Méditerranée orientale puis de l'Afrique aux Amériques, le fameux " commerce triangulaire " n'étant que l'une de ses composantes ; et dans le temps, puisque cette histoire est longue de près de quatorze siècles. Il fallait à Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau, pour maîtriser dans sa totalité l'étude de ce trafic et l'ériger en objet historique, une approche globale, qui mettrait en rel...
The French Atlantic Triangle
A study of representations of the French Atlantic slave trade in the history, literature, and film of France and its former colonies in Africa and the Caribbean.
Hidden History
Think you know about British history and the causes of the First World War? Think again. This fascinating and gripping study of events at the turn of the Twentieth Century is a remarkable insight into how political and social factors that we widely accept to be the causes of The Great War, were really just a construct put together by a very small, but powerful, political elite... 'Thought-provoking . . . Docherty and Macgregor do not mince their words . . . their arguments are powerful' -- Britain at War 'Simply astonishing' -- ***** Reader review 'Very illuminating' -- ***** Reader review 'You simply MUST read this book' -- ***** Reader review 'This is a page-turner' -- ***** Reader review ...
The Anthropology of Slavery
This study of the institution and system of slavery was first published in France in 1986. Drawing upon his knowledge of African society, Professor Meillassoux provides an analysis of the reproduction of the social order in societies relying heavily on slavery: within tribes, marauding bands and nations, and between the classes and sexes. He also examines the rivalry between military and aristocratic groupings and the merchant classes who conducted the slave trade.
Global Intellectual History
Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, concerns, practice, and promise of "global intellectual history," featuring essays by leading scholars on various approaches that are taking shape across the discipline. The contributors to Global Intellectual History explore the different ways in which one can think about the production, dissemination, and circulation of "global" ideas and ask whether global intellectual history can indeed produce legitimate narratives. They discuss how intellectuals and ideas fit within current conceptions of global frames and processes of globalization and proto-globalization, and they distinguish between ideas of the global and those of the transnational, identifying what each contributes to intellectual history. A crucial guide, this collection sets conceptual coordinates for readers eager to map an emerging area of study.
