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Examines gender, race and status to present a vibrant picture of social relations and working-class cultures in port cities.
List of contents
Introduction. Free and unfree labor in Atlantic and Indian Ocean port cities (seventeenth-nineteenth centuries) Pepijn Brandon, Niklas Frykman and Pernille Røge; 1. Labouring transformations of amphibious monsters: exploring early modern globalization, diversity, and shifting clusters of labour relations in the context of the Dutch East India Company (1600-1800) Matthias van Rossum; 2. History below the waterline: enslaved salvage divers harvesting seaports' hinter-seas in the early modern Atlantic Kevin Dawson; 3. The household workers of the East India Company ports of pre-colonial Bengal Titas Chakraborty; 4. Between the plantation and the port: racialization and social control in eighteenth-century Paramaribo Pepijn Brandon; 5. Securing trade: the military labor of the British occupation of Manila, 1762-1764 Megan C. Thomas; 6. The path to sweet success: free and unfree labor in the building of roads and rails in Havana, Cuba, 1790-1835 Evelyn P. Jennings; 7. Liberated Africans, slaves, and convict labor in the construction of Rio de Janeiro's Casa de Correção: Atlantic labor regimes and confinement in Brazil's port city Martine Jean; 8. Convicts, commodities, and connections in British Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1789-1866 Clare Anderson; 9. Street food, urban space, and gender: working on the streets of nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro (1830-1870) Melina Teubner; 10. Afterword: reflections on the motley crew as port city proletariat Marcus Rediker.
Summary
Colonial and post-colonial port cities in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions brought together laboring populations of many different backgrounds and statuses, from soldiers and sailors to convicts and slaves. This volume examines gender, race and status to present a vibrant picture of social relations and working-class cultures in port cities.
