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Imperial Powers and Humanitarian Interventions
In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies, most notably Britain, France, and Germany. In fact, the Sultanate was one of the few places in the world where humanitarianism and imperialism met in the most obvious fashion. This crucial encounter was perfectly embodied by the iconic meeting of Dr. Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley in 1871. This book challenges the common presumption that those humanitarian concerns only served to conceal vile colonial interests. It brings the repression of the East African slave trade at sea and the expansion of empires into a new light in comparing French and British archives for the first time.
Imperial Powers and Humanitarian Interventions
"In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies, most notably Britain, France, and Germany. In fact, the Sultanate was one of the few places in the world where humanitarianism and imperialism met in the most obvious fashion. This crucial encounter was perfectly embodied by the iconic meeting of Dr. Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley in 1871. This book challenges the common presumption that those humanitarian concerns only served to conceal vile colonial interests. It brings the repression of the East African slave trade at sea and the expansion of empires into a new light in comparing French and British archives for the first time"--
The Shadow that Lingers
"Cooper shows how the reaction to slavery unveiled the characteristics of freedom and established the foundation for the human rights movement. The book demonstrates how the legacy of slavery continues to shape individual identity as well as the nature of state power to exercise discipline and control over its citizens"--
Activism Across Borders Since 1870
"A historical survey of transnational activism in Europe and beyond since 1870"--
Automotive Empire
In Automotive Empire, Andrew Denning uncovers how roads and vehicles began to transform colonial societies across Africa but rarely in the manner Europeans expected. Like seafaring ships and railroads, automobiles and roads were more than a mode of transport—they organized colonial spaces and structured the political, economic, and social relations of empire, both within African colonies and between colonies and the European metropole. European officials in French, Italian, British, German, Belgian, and Portuguese territories in Africa shared a common challenge—the transport problem. While they imagined that roads would radiate commerce and political hegemony by collapsing space, the pre...
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History
This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout history. To understand slavery - why it developed, and how it functioned in various societies – is to understand an important and widespread practice in world civilisations. With research traditionally being dominated by the Atlantic world, this collection aims to illuminate slavery that existed in not only the Americas but also ancient, medieval, North and sub-Saharan African, Near Eastern, and Asian societies. Connecting civilisations through migration, warfare, trade routes and economic expansion, the practice of slavery integrated countries and regions through power-based rel...
Yankees in the Indian Ocean
The history of US imperialism remains incomplete without this consideration of long-overlooked nineteenth-century American commercial and whaling ventures in the Indian Ocean. Yankees in the Indian Ocean shows how nineteenth-century American merchant and whaler activity in the Indian Ocean shaped the imperial future of the United States, influenced the region’s commerce, encouraged illegal slaving, and contributed to environmental degradation. For a brief time, Americans outnumbered other Western visitors to Mauritius, Madagascar, Zanzibar, and the East African littoral. In a relentless search for commodities and provisions, American whaleships landed at islands throughout the ocean and st...
Intervention d'humanité - La répression de la traite des esclaves à Zanzibar, Années 1860-1900
Le sultanat de Zanzibar, petit empire maritime omanais établi sur les côtes de l'Afrique orientale, fut au cœur des politiques impériales européennes à la fin du XIX e siècle... Le sultanat de Zanzibar, petit empire maritime omanais établi sur les côtes de l'Afrique orientale, fut au cœur des politiques impériales européennes à la fin du XIXe siècle. Place stratégique convoitée, l'archipel est marqué par un recours massif à l'esclavage. Les opérations navales menées par la marine britannique dans le but de mettre fin à la traite exacerbent les tensions avec la France qui soupçonne, derrière des visées abolitionnistes, un plan de colonisation de la région. Fruit d'une...
De Zanzibardriehoek
In 1873 dwingt Groot-Brittannië de sultan van Zanzibar tot het sluiten van de plaatselijke slavenmarkt, het centrum van de Oost-Afrikaanse mensenhandel. Een kwart eeuw later is het op het hele eiland gedaan met de slavernij. Net als met de onafhankelijkheid van het sultanaat. Na de kortste oorlog in de geschiedenis – nog geen drie kwartier – wordt Zanzibar een Brits protectoraat. Einde van de slavernij, begin van de onderwerping. Het westerse imperialisme is, heel paradoxaal, zowel humanitair, commercieel als agressief. De Zanzibardriehoek beschrijft de laatste episode in de slavernijgeschiedenis vanuit de direct betrokkenen: de zendeling-ontdekkingsreiziger David Livingstone, bijgestaan door bevrijde slaven als James Chuma en gevolgd door avonturiers als Henry Stanley. Sultan Barghash en slavenhandelaar Tippu Tip verzetten zich, maar moeten buigen voor één man, de selfmade diplomaat John Kirk. Uiteindelijk is ook Kirk zelf niet meer dan een trekpop van de werkelijke hoofdrolspelers in de Europese regeringscentra. De Zanzibardriehoek gaat net als De Boerenoorlog over goede bedoelingen, kwade opzet en de tragiek van Afrika, het slaafgemaakte continent.
Writing the History of Slavery
Exploring the major historiographical, theoretical, and methodological approaches that have shaped studies on slavery, this addition to the Writing History series highlights the varied ways that historians have approached the fluid and complex systems of human bondage, domination, and exploitation that have developed in societies across the world. The first part examines more recent attempts to place slavery in a global context, touching on contexts such as religion, empire, and capitalism. In its second part, the book looks closely at the key themes and methods that emerge as historians reckon with the dynamics of historical slavery. These range from politics, economics and quantitative ana...
