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This book examines the impact of the African slave trade and colonialism on political, civil, economic, social, and environmental human rights, and demonstrates that many contemporary human rights issues stem from the impact of the African slave trade and subsequent colonialism and disruption of economic and political development.
List of contents
1. Sociological Approaches 2. Human Rights World-Wide 3. The African Slave Trade 4. Colonial Legacies and Human Rights 5. From Then to Now-The African Slave Trade, Colonialism, and Today's Human Rights 6. Longterm Legacies, Social Movements, and Climate Change
About the author
Steve Carlton-Ford is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati, USA. Much of his published work has focused cross-nationally on determinants of child mortality, an indicator of the right to life defined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). His recent research examines the determinants of political, civil, social, and economic rights as described in the UDHR. He is the co-editor (with Morten Ender) of
The Routledge Handbook of War and Society: Iraq and Afghanistan (Routledge, 2010) and author
of The Effects of Ritual and Charisma: The Creation of Collective Effervescence and the Support of Psychic Strength (1993) and numerous journal articles.
Summary
This book examines the impact of the African slave trade and colonialism on political, civil, economic, social, and environmental human rights, and demonstrates that many contemporary human rights issues stem from the impact of the African slave trade and subsequent colonialism and disruption of economic and political development.
