Many Middle Passages: Forced Migration and the Making of the Modern World Volume 5

Bys: Emma Christopher, Cassandra Pybus, Marcus Rediker

Book Overview

This groundbreaking book presents a global perspective on the history of forced migration over three centuries and illuminates the centrality of these vast movements of people in the making of the modern world. Highly original essays from renowned international scholars trace the history of slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, bonded soldiers, trafficked women, and coolie and Kanaka labor across the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic Oceans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520252071
• ISBN13: 9780520252073
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 8.9"