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Postcolonial slavery : an overview of colonialism's legacy / edited by Charlotte Baker and Jennifer Jahn.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery.
- Postcolonialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (203 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of eight essays by research students and academics from the UK, France, Germany and the USA examining different forms and manifestations of postcolonial slavery underlines the significance of the year 2007, marking the bicentennial anniversary of the passage of the British law banning the slave trade. Slavery and its legacies galvanized a diachronic series of ethnic crossings and transformations that engendered new and complex patterns of crosscultural contact. And the importa...
- Contents:
- pt. I. (Mis-)representations
- pt. II. Breaking silences, re-writing history
- pt. III. Postcolonial slavery.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-41384-8
- 9786612413841
- 1-4438-1457-1
- OCLC:
- 827209425
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