The harem, slavery and British imperial culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The harem, slavery and British imperial culture write by Diane Robinson-Dunn. This book was released on 2017-03-01. The harem, slavery and British imperial culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late-nineteenth century. It considers this campaign in relation to gender debates in England, and examines the ways in which the assumptions and dominant imperialist discourses of these abolitionists were challenged by the newly-established Muslim communities in England, as well as by English people who converted to or were sympathetic with Islam. While previous scholars have treated antislavery activity in Egypt first and foremost as an extension of earlier efforts to abolish plantation slavery in the New World, this book considers it in terms of encounters with Islam during a period which it argues marked a new departure in Anglo-Muslim relations. This approach illuminates the role of Islam in the creation of English national identities within the global cultural system of the British Empire. This book would appeal to those with an interest in British imperial history; Islam; gender, feminism, and women’s studies; slavery and race; the formation of national identities; global processes; Orientalism; and Middle Eastern studies.
Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East
Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East write by Ehud R. Toledano. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the Ottoman Empire, many members of the ruling elite were legally slaves of the sultan and therefore could, technically, be ordered to surrender their labor, their property, or their lives at any moment. Nevertheless, slavery provided a means of social mobility, conferring status and political power within the military, the bureaucracy, or the domestic household and formed an essential part of patronage networks. Ehud R. Toledano’s exploration of slavery from the Ottoman viewpoint is based on extensive research in British, French, and Turkish archives and offers rich, original, and important insights into Ottoman life and thought. In an attempt to humanize the narrative and take it beyond the plane of numbers, tables and charts, Toledano examines the situations of individuals representing the principal realms of Ottoman slavery, female harem slaves, the sultan’s military and civilian kuls, court and elite eunuchs, domestic slaves, Circassian agricaultural slaves, slave dealers, and slave owners. Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East makes available new and significantly revised studies on nineteenth-century Middle Eastern slavery and suggests general approaches to the study of slavery in different cultures.
Emancipation and the remaking of the British Imperial world
Emancipation and the remaking of the British Imperial world - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Emancipation and the remaking of the British Imperial world write by Catherine Hall. This book was released on 2015-11-01. Emancipation and the remaking of the British Imperial world available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Slavery and the slavery business have cast a long shadow over British history. In 1833, abolition was heralded as evidence of Britain’s claim to be the modern global power. Yet much is still unknown about the significance of the slavery business and emancipation in the formation of modern imperial Britain. This book engages with current work exploring the importance of slavery and slave-ownership in the re-making of the British imperial world after abolition in 1833. The contributors to this collection, drawn from Britain, the Caribbean and Mauritius, include some of the most distinguished writers in the field: Clare Anderson, Robin Blackburn, Heather Cateau, Mary Chamberlain, Chris Evans, Pat Hudson, Richard Huzzey, Zoë Laidlaw, Alison Light, Anita Rupprecht, Verene A. Shepherd, Andrea Stuart and Vijaya Teelock. The impact of slavery and slave-ownership is once again becoming a major area of historical and contemporary concern: this book makes a vital contribution to the subject.
Life after the Harem
Life after the Harem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life after the Harem write by Betül İpşirli Argit. This book was released on 2020-10-29. Life after the Harem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first study exploring the lives of female slaves of the Ottoman imperial court, drawing from hitherto unexplored primary sources
Legal Histories of the British Empire
Legal Histories of the British Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legal Histories of the British Empire write by Shaunnagh Dorsett. This book was released on 2014-04-24. Legal Histories of the British Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire. Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, the authors provide in-depth analyses which shine new light on the role of law in creating the people and places of the British Empire. Ranging from the United States, through Calcutta, across Australasia to the Gold Coast, these essays seek to investigate law’s central place in the British Empire, and the role of its agents in embedding British rule and culture in colonial territories. One of the first collections to provide a sustained engagement with the legal histories of the British Empire, in particular beyond the settler colonies, this work aims to encourage further scholarship and new approaches to the writing of the histories of that Empire. Legal Histories of the British Empire: Laws, Engagements and Legacies will be of value not only to legal scholars and graduate students, but of interest to all of those who want to know more about the laws in and of the British Empire.
