Embarrassment of Slavery - Controversies Over Bondage Nationalism in American Colonial

Informationen zum Autor Michael Salman is Associate Professor of History at the University of California! Los Angeles. Klappentext " The Embarrassment of Slavery will make a major contribution to the global history of slavery and colonialism as well as to U.S. history in general. . . . Few if any of the hundreds of scholars who have revolutionized our understanding of New World slavery and abolition know that slavery became a central issue in the ensuing debates over colonialism and Philippine independence. Michael Salman fills this vacuum and greatly expands our historical horizon. He also integrates the story of slavery in the Philippines with an enriched interpretation of antislavery ideology."-David Brion Davis! author of The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture and Slavery and Human Progress ! and Director of Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery! Resistance! and Abolition "Based on a broad and careful consideration of archival sources! Salman presents a wide range of materials that have often been at the periphery of scholarship on colonial and national histories but have never been treated systematically. Using the prism of anti-slavery ideology and the lingering anxieties about slavery and its opposite conditions! Salman is poised to make a crucial intervention in the comparative study of twentieth century colonialism. The Embarrassment of Slavery is an original and compelling work."-Vicente Rafael! author of White Love and Other Events in Filipino History and Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversions in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule Zusammenfassung Presents a series of controversies over the existence and meaning of slavery that shaped American colonialism and nationalist resistance in the Philippines. This book examines the salience of slavery and abolition in the history of American colonialism and Philippine nationalism....

Product details

• Authors: Michael Salman, Salman Michael
• Assisted by: Michael Salman (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2003
• EAN: 9780520240711
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24071-1
• No. of pages: 346
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United States of America, USA, Social and cultural anthropology, Philippines, History of the Americas, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery and abolition of slavery