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Bonded Labour and Debt in the Indian Ocean World
Author(s): Gwyn Campbell (Editor), Alessandro Stanziani
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848933789
- ISBN-13: 9781848933781
Book Description
This volume of essays contains case studies of debt bondage covering the impact of an expanding globalized economy, increased commercialization, colonial and post-colonial societies, and emerging economies.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘It brings together significant new information, and it generally succeeds in demonstrating that bonded labour and debt have been enduring historical themes whose role has not been sufficiently recognized and analysed within the existing historiography.’ Journal of the Indian Ocean Region ‘highly commendable and the overall results and level of expertise [are] by and large impressive.’ Journal of African History
About the Author
Gwyn Campbell (McGill University, Montreal), Alessandro Stanziani (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
