Alessandro Stanziani: 4 books
Labor on the Fringes of Empire
Voice, Exit and the Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
After the abolition of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Africa, the world of labor remained unequal, exploitative, and violent, straddling a fine line between freedom and unfreedom. This book explains why. Unseating the Atlantic paradigm of bondage and drawing from a rich array of colonial, estate,...
After Oriental Despotism
Eurasian Growth in a Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
The concepts of economic backwardness, Asiatic despotism and orientalism have strongly influenced perceptions of modernization, democracy and economic growth over the last three centuries. This book provides an original view of Russian and Asian history that views both in a global perspective. Via...
by Alessandro Stanziani
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Global history locates national histories in the context of broader processes, in which the West is not necessarily synonymous with progress. And yet it often suffers from the same Eurocentrism that plagues national history, accepting Western categories and values uncritically and largely ignoring...
by Alessandro Stanziani
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Filling a significant gap in the historiography, the essays in this volume show that debt slavery has played a crucial role in the economic history of numerous societies which continues even today.