Slaves, convicts, and unfree immigrants have traveled the oceans throughout human history, but the conventional Atlantic World historical paradigm has narrowed our understanding of modernity. This provocative study contrasts the Atlantic conflation of freedom and the sea with the complex relationships in the Indian Ocean in the long 19th century.

Autorentext

Alessandro Stanziani is Professor of Global history at the EHESS, France, and Research Director at CNRS, France.

Inhalt

1. Colonial Studies, Area Studies, and the Historical Meaning of the Indian Ocean 2. Seamen in France and the French Empire: Heirs to the Galley Slave or Forerunners of the Social Security System? 3. Sailors in the British Empire 4. Slaveries and Emancipation 5. Immigrants and Planters in the Reunion Island 6. From British Servants to Indentured Immigrants: The Case of Mauritius