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Book The Politics of Slave Trade Suppression in Britain and France  1814 48

Download or read book The Politics of Slave Trade Suppression in Britain and France 1814 48 written by P. Kielstra and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-07-25 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's rarely-examined, nineteenth-century diplomatic efforts for abolition took contemporary pre-eminence over most questions and almost sparked war with France in 1845. Kielstra examines the issue in Anglo-French relations: how conflicting moral, economic, and nationalist pressures and lobby groups affected domestic politics and high diplomacy. To preserve peace and their positions, statesmen had little margin for error as they framed policies which attacked the trade and satisfied mutually incompatible domestic opinions, in a struggle which holds lessons for current efforts to include human rights concerns in foreign policy.

Book The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade

Download or read book The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade written by Robert Burroughs and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The suppression of the Atlantic slave trade has puzzled nineteenth-century contemporaries and historians since, as the British Empire turned naval power and moral outrage against a branch of commerce it had done so much to promote. The assembled authors bridge the gap between ship and shore to reveal the motives, effects, and legacies of this campaign. As the first academic history of Britain’s campaign to suppress the Atlantic slave trade in more than thirty years, the book gathers experts in history, literature, historical geography, museum studies, and the history of medicine to analyse naval suppression in light of recent work on slavery and empire. Three sections reveal the policies, experiences and representations of slave-trade suppression from the perspectives of metropolitan Britons, liberated Africans, black sailors, colonialists, and naval officers.

Book The Politics of the Second Slavery

Download or read book The Politics of the Second Slavery written by Dale W. Tomich and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-12-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds new light on both pro and antislavery politics in the nineteenth-century Americas. The creation of new frontiers of slave commodity production and the expansion and intensification of slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the southern United States were an integral part of the expansion of the world economy during the nineteenth century. Beginning from this vantage point, The Politics of the Second Slavery brings together a group of international scholars to reinterpret pro- and antislavery politics both globally and nationally as part of the forces that were restructuring Atlantic slavery. Individual chapters shed new light on the decolonization and nationalization of slavery in the Americas, the politics of proslavery elites both within particular countries and across the Atlantic region, the abolition of the international slave trade, and slave resistance. Dale W. Tomich is Deputy Director of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, and Professor of Sociology and History at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the editor of New Frontiers of Slavery and the author of Slavery in the Circuit of Sugar, Second Edition: Martinique and the World-Economy, 1830–1848, both also published by SUNY Press.

Book Transactions of the Royal Historical Society  Volume 22

Download or read book Transactions of the Royal Historical Society Volume 22 written by Ian W. Archer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians.

Book Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain  Africa  and the Atlantic

Download or read book Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain Africa and the Atlantic written by Derek R. Peterson and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The abolition of the slave trade is normally understood to be the singular achievement of eighteenth-century British liberalism. Abolitionism and Imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic expands both the temporal and the geographic framework in which the history of abolitionism is conceived. Abolitionism was a theater in which a variety of actors—slaves, African rulers, Caribbean planters, working-class radicals, British evangelicals, African political entrepreneurs—played a part. The Atlantic was an echo chamber, in which abolitionist symbols, ideas, and evidence were generated from a variety of vantage points. These essays highlight the range of political and moral projects in which the advocates of abolitionism were engaged, and in so doing it joins together geographies that are normally studied in isolation. Where empires are often understood to involve the government of one people over another, Abolitionism and Imperialism shows that British values were formed, debated, and remade in the space of empire. Africans were not simply objects of British liberals’ benevolence. They played an active role in shaping, and extending, the values that Britain now regards as part of its national character. This book is therefore a contribution to the larger scholarship about the nature of modern empires. Contributors: Christopher Leslie Brown, Seymour Drescher, Jonathon Glassman, Boyd Hilton, Robin Law, Phillip D. Morgan, Derek R. Peterson, John K. Thornton

Book Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands  1815 2000

Download or read book Shaping the International Relations of the Netherlands 1815 2000 written by Ruud van Dijk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to launch a new research agenda for the historiography of Dutch foreign relations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It does so in two important ways. First, it broadens the analytical perspective to include a variety of non-state actors beyond politicians and diplomats. Second, it focuses on the transnational connections that shaped the foreign relations of the Netherlands, emphasizing the effects of (post-) colonialism and internationalism. Furthermore, this essay collection highlights not only the key roles played by Dutch actors on the international scene, but also serves as an important point of comparison for the activities of their counterparts in other small states.

Book Imperial Powers and Humanitarian Interventions

Download or read book Imperial Powers and Humanitarian Interventions written by Raphaël Cheriau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies, most notably Britain, France, and Germany. In fact, the Sultanate was one of the few places in the world where humanitarianism and imperialism met in the most obvious fashion. This crucial encounter was perfectly embodied by the iconic meeting of Dr. Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley in 1871. This book challenges the common presumption that those humanitarian concerns only served to conceal vile colonial interests. It brings the repression of the East African slave trade at sea and the expansion of empires into a new light in comparing French and British archives for the first time.

Book The Atlantic Slave Trade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeremy Black
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2022-12-30
  • ISBN : 1000830918
  • Pages : 499 pages

Download or read book The Atlantic Slave Trade written by Jeremy Black and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as a collection in 2006, the essays in this volume discuss the reasons for the end of the slave trade and the institution of slavery itself. They examine the rise of the abolitionist movement in different countries and how the move towards abolition was swifter in some areas than others. Attention is also paid to the economic consequences of abolition, popular attitudes to abolition and the role of the Church. The volume also has an introduction by the editor commenting on the contribution each essay makes.

Book Slavery in the Sudan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sharon Barnes
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2013-08-20
  • ISBN : 1137286032
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book Slavery in the Sudan written by Sharon Barnes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study offers a rare window into the history of slavery in the Sudan, with particular attention to the relationships between slaves and masters. Thoroughly documented, it provides valuable context to current issues of global concern and combats persistent myths about African slavery.

Book Britain s History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery

Download or read book Britain s History and Memory of Transatlantic Slavery written by Katie Donington and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic slavery, just like the abolition movements, affected every space and community in Britain, from Cornwall to the Clyde, from dockyard alehouses to country estates. Today, its financial, architectural and societal legacies remain, scattered across the country in museums and memorials, philanthropic institutions and civic buildings, empty spaces and unmarked graves. Just as they did in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, British people continue to make sense of this 'national sin' by looking close to home, drawing on local histories and myths to negotiate their relationship to the distant horrors of the 'Middle Passage', and the Caribbean plantation. For the first time, this collection brings together localised case studies of Britain's history and memory of its involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, and slavery. These essays, ranging in focus from eighteenth-century Liverpool to twenty-first-century rural Cambridgeshire, from racist ideologues to Methodist preachers, examine how transatlantic slavery impacted on, and continues to impact, people and places across Britain.

Book Distant freedom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Pearson
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2016-03-31
  • ISBN : 1781383855
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Distant freedom written by Andrew Pearson and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the remote South Atlantic island of St Helena and its role in the abolition of the slave trade.

Book The Death of the French Atlantic

Download or read book The Death of the French Atlantic written by Alan Forrest and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death of the French Atlantic examines the sudden and irreversible decline of France's Atlantic empire in the Age of Revolution, and shows how three major forces undermined the country's competitive position as an Atlantic commercial power. The first was war, especially war at sea against France's most consistent enemy and commercial rival in the eighteenth century, Great Britain. A series of colonial wars, from the Seven Years' War and the War of American Independence to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars did much to drive France out of the North Atlantic. The second was anti-slavery and the rise of a new moral conscience which challenged the right of Europeans to own slaves or to sacrifice the freedom of others to pursue national economic advantage. The third was the French Revolution itself, which not only raised French hopes of achieving the Rights of Man for its own citizens but also sowed the seeds of insurrection in the slave societies of the New World, leading to the loss of Saint-Domingue and the creation of the first black republic in Haiti at the beginning of the nineteenth century. This proved critical to the economy of the French Caribbean, driving both colons and slaves from Saint-Domingue to seek shelter across the Atlantic world, and leaving a bitter legacy in the French Caribbean. It has also created an uneasy memory of the slave trade in French ports like Nantes, La Rochelle, and Bordeaux, and has left an indelible mark on race relations in France today.

Book The Victorian Empire and Britain s Maritime World  1837 1901

Download or read book The Victorian Empire and Britain s Maritime World 1837 1901 written by M. Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging new survey of the role of the sea in Britain's global presence in the 19th century. Mostly at peace, but sometimes at war, Britain grew as a maritime empire in the Victorian era. This collection looks at British sea-power as a strategic, moral and cultural force.

Book In the Cause of Humanity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Fabian Klose
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2021-12-09
  • ISBN : 1316516202
  • Pages : 475 pages

Download or read book In the Cause of Humanity written by Fabian Klose and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth century.

Book The Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention

Download or read book The Emergence of Humanitarian Intervention written by Fabian Klose and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the emergence and development of humanitarian intervention from the nineteenth century through to the present day. Drawing from a multitude of disciplines, it investigates the complex and controversial debates over the legitimacy of protecting humanitarian norms and universal human rights by violent as well as non-violent means.

Book Britain and International Law in West Africa

Download or read book Britain and International Law in West Africa written by Inge Van Hulle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth contextual analysis of the role of international law in the growth of British presence in West Africa during the early- and mid-nineteenth century. It highlights this period as an important experimentation phase which saw the genesis of the treaties that have now become associated with the Scramble for Africa.