Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World

Essays in Honor of Pieter Emmer
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17620-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigenous Response

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Klooster, Wim

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Historische Migrationsforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors
Introduction, Wim Klooster

EUROPEAN MIGRATION EAST AND WEST
1. War, Colonization, and Migration over Five Centuries, Stanley Engerman
2. Maritime Power, Colonial Power: the Role of Migration, 1492-1792, Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau
3. Dutch Labor Migration to West Africa (c.1590-1674), Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
4. Soldiers and Merchants: Aspects of Migration from Europe to Asia by the Dutch East India Company in the Eighteenth Century, Femme Gaastra

THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
5. New Christians, Jews, and Amsterdam at the Crossroads of Expansion Systems, Jessica Vance Roitman
6. Social Outcomes of Trade Relations: Ties between Africans and Europeans in the Hubs of the Slave Trade on the Guinea Coast, Natalie Everts

REPRESENTATIONS OF SLAVERY
7. Slavery in the De Bry Collection: The Formation of a Worldwide Comparative Perspective, Ernst van den Boogaart
8. The Representation of Slaves and Slavery in the Writing of the Natural History of the West Indies during the Early Modern Centuries: French and English Contributions Compared, Nicholas Canny

SLAVERY’S DEMISE AND LEGACY
9. Abolition and Identity in the Very Long Run, David Eltis
10. Divergent Paths: The Anglo-American Abolitions of the Atlantic Slave Trade, Seymour Drescher
11. The Transformation and Downfall of Plantation Labor in Suriname, Ellen Klinkers
12. History Brought Home: Postcolonial Migrations and the Dutch Rediscovery of Slavery, Gert Oostindie
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wim Klooster, Ph.D. (1995) in History, University of Leiden, is Associate Professor at Clark University. He is the author or co-editor of six other books, including Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History (2009).