Contesting Empires: Opposition, Promotion and Slavery

Contesting Empires: Opposition, Promotion and Slavery
ISBN-10
1403981329
ISBN-13
9781403981325
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
286
Language
English
Published
2005-02-15
Publisher
Springer
Author
J. Hart

Description

Based on extensive archival research, this book looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France and England, and then examines the opposition to empire, the promotion of empire and the question of slavery. Hart's discussion on slavery has even larger scope ranging from early Arab, African and Portuguese practices in Africa and beyond to the legal abolition of slavery in the British empire, the United States and elsewhere in the Nineteenth-century.

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