Networks of Empire - Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company

Informationen zum Autor Dr Kerry Ward is currently Assistant Professor of World History at Rice University. She has a PhD from the University of Michigan! an MA from the University of Cape Town! and a BA from the University of Adelaide. She has published in the fields of comparative slavery and forced migration! comparative imperialism and colonialism! Indian Ocean history! South African and Southeast Asian history! historical memory! and public history in South Africa. Klappentext In this book, Ward examines the Dutch East India Company's control of migration as an expression of imperial power. Zusammenfassung This examination of the Dutch East India Company grapples with the theoretical nature of empire! examines how empires exist through the movement and control of people within their realms! and proposes a new concept of diaspora! demonstrating how all empires have unique networks of free and forced migration. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Networks of empire and the imperial diaspora; 2. The company's imperial legal realm and forced migration; 3. Crime and punishment in mid-eighteenth century Batavia; 4. The Cape cauldron: tales of a trans-oceanic past; 5. Cross-circuits in the Indian Ocean: the VOC and Dar al Islam; 6. Social webs at the Cape of Good Hope; 7. Disintegrating imperial networks.

Product details

• Authors: Kerry Ward, Kerry (Rice University Ward
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521885867
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88586-7
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Studies in Comparative World H; Studies in Comparative World History; Studies in Comparative World H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous