Slavery, abolitionism and empire in India, 1772-1843 [[electronic resource] /] / Andrea Major
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Major Andrea
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| Titolo: |
Slavery, abolitionism and empire in India, 1772-1843 [[electronic resource] /] / Andrea Major
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| Pubblicazione: | Liverpool, : Liverpool University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (756 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.3620954 |
| 909.7 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Slavery - India - History |
| Antislavery movements - Great Britain - History - 18th century | |
| Antislavery movements - Great Britain - History - 19th century | |
| Slavery and the church - Great Britain - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | India Social conditions |
| India Social life and customs | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | pt. 1. Other slaveries -- pt. 2. European slaveries -- pt. 3. Indian slaveries -- pt. 4. Imagined slaveries. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | There are no two things in the world more different from each other than East-Indian and West Indian-slavery' (Robert Inglis, House of Commons Debate, 1833). In Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843, Andrea Major asks why, at a time when East India Company expansion in India, British abolitionism and the missionary movement were all at their height, was the existence of slavery in India so often ignored, denied or excused? By exploring Britain's ambivalent relationship with both real and imagined slaveries in India, and the official, evangelical and popular discourses which surr |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Slavery, abolitionism and empire in India, 1772-1843 |
| ISBN: | 9781781388426 |
| 1781388423 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910461602103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Liverpool studies in international slavery ; ; 6.