Fragments of empire [[electronic resource] ] : capital, slavery, and Indian indentured labor migration in the British Caribbean / / Madhavi Kale
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| Autore: |
Kale Madhavi
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| Titolo: |
Fragments of empire [[electronic resource] ] : capital, slavery, and Indian indentured labor migration in the British Caribbean / / Madhavi Kale
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| Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia [Pa.], : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1998 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.36/09729 |
| Soggetto topico: | Indentured servants - Caribbean Area - History |
| Indentured servants - India - History | |
| Labor supply - Caribbean Area - History | |
| Slave labor - Caribbean Area - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | India Emigration and immigration History |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-227) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Casting Empire -- 1. Very Particularly Situated -- 2. Capitalists in the Neighborhood -- 3. Just a Minute -- 4. Where Are These Records ? -- 5. The "Saints" Come Marching In -- 6. Projecting Identities -- 7. Casting Labor in the Imperial Mold -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
| Sommario/riassunto: | When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of paying working wages to their former slaves. Cheaper labor existed elsewhere in the empire, however, and plantation owners, along with the home and colonial governments, quickly began importing the first of what would eventually be hundreds of thousands of indentured laborers from India. Madhavi Kale draws extensively on the archival materials from the period and argues that imperial administrators sanctioned and authorized distinctly biased accounts of postemancipation labor conditions and participated in devaluing and excluding alternative accounts of slavery. As she does this she highlights the ways in which historians, by relying on these biased sources, have perpetuated the acceptance of a privileged perspective on imperial British history. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Fragments of empire |
| ISBN: | 1-283-21177-7 |
| 9786613211774 | |
| 0-8122-0242-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457843303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Critical histories.