Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World

Essays in Honor of Pieter Emmer

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9306880
AutoresWim Klooster (autor de correspondencia), P C Emmer
Año2009
Fecha de publicación2009-05-06
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaMigration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/ej.9789004176201.i-340
OpenAlexW2476149426
Open LibraryOL23170247M
ISBN9789004176201
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7

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

Abolitionism · Advertising · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Atlantic slave trade · Colonialism · Demise · Destinations · Economic history · Honor · Long nineteenth century · Newspaper · Period (music · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Section (typography · Tourism · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · 1492 · 1492-1648 · America · emigration and immigration · Europe · Europeans · Handel · Historiography · Migratie (demografie) · Migrations · Slave trade · Slavernij · Slavery · Territorial expansion