Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia

What happened when European colonialism coopted or confronted societies in Asia and the Indian Ocean World for the purpose of slaving, and what are the tools to analyse this? These are questions that guide the present volume. For several hundred years after 1498, seafaring European powers were invol...

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Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia
title Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia
title_full Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia
title_fullStr Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia
title_full_unstemmed Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia
title_short Colonial Encounters and Slavery in Early Modern Asia
title_sort colonial encounters and slavery in early modern asia
topic enslavement, trafficking, colonialism, colonial violence, global slavery, VOC, digital humanities, Asia, Mozambique, Russia
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTS Slavery and abolition of slavery
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTM Maritime history
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thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTM Maritime history
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