Migration, Trade, and Slavery in an Expanding World
Biographical note
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).
Readership
All those interested in European expansion history, Atlantic history, slavery, and world history.
Table of contents
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
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
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