1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788664703321

Titolo

Fast algorithms for structured matrices : theory and applications : AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on Fast Algorithms in Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, August 5-9, 2001, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts / / Vadim Olshevsky, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, , [2003]

©2003

ISBN

0-8218-7913-8

0-89871-543-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (448 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 323

Disciplina

512.9/434

Soggetti

Matrices

Fourier transformations

Algorithms

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910955694203321

Titolo

Abolition and its aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia / / edited by Gwyn Campbell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

1-135-77078-6

1-135-77079-4

1-280-26851-4

9786610268511

0-203-49302-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 p.)

Collana

Studies in slave and post-slave societies and cultures

Altri autori (Persone)

CampbellGwyn <1952->

Disciplina

326/.09182/4

Soggetti

Slavery - Indian Ocean Region - History

Slavery - Africa - History

Slavery - Asia - History

Slave trade - Indian Ocean Region - History

Slave trade - Africa - History

Slave trade - Asia - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Abolition and its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; 1 Introduction: abolition and its aftermath in the Indian Ocean world; 2 Indian Ocean slavery and its demise in the Cape Colony; 3 The Bel Ombre Rebellion: Indian convicts in Mauritius,1815-53; 4 Unfree labour and the significance of abolition in Madagascar, c.1825-97; 5 The abolition of slavery and the aftermath stigma: The case of the Bantu/Jareer1 people on the Benadir coast of southern Somalia; 6 The 1848 abolitionist farmān: A step towards ending the slave trade in Iran

7 The slave trade and its fallout in the Persian Gulf8 Slavery and the slave trade in Saudi Arabia and the Arab states on the Persian Gulf, 1921-63; 9 Islam and the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean; 10 Abolition by denial: The South Asian example; 11 Plantation labour in the Brahmaputra Valley: Regional enclaves in a



colonial context; 12 The meaning of slavery: The genealogy of 'an insult to the American Government and to the Filipino people'; 13 The emancipation of slaves in the Indian Ocean; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This important collection of essays examines the history and impact of the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean World, a region stretching from Southern and Eastern Africa to the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia and the Far East.Slavery studies have traditionally concentrated on the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. In comparison, the Indian Ocean World slave trade has been little explored, although it started some 3,500 years before the Atlantic slave trade and persists to the present day. This volume, which follows a collection of essays <E