The Indentured Archipelago

The Indentured Archipelago
Author: Reshaad Durgahee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2022-02-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316512266

A historical geographical comparison of the Indo-Pacific Indian indenture labour experience, revealing the hitherto unexplored movements of labourers between colonies.

Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail

Islands and the British Empire in the Age of Sail
Author: Douglas Hamilton
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2021-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0192586556

Islands are not just geographical units or physical facts; their importance and significance arise from the human activities associated with them. The maritime routes of sailing ships, the victualling requirements of their sailors, and the strategic demands of seaborne empires in the age of sail - as well as their intrinsic value as sources of rare commodities - meant that islands across the globe played prominent parts in imperial consolidation and expansion. This volume examines the various ways in which islands (and groups of islands) contributed to the establishment, extension, and maintenance of the British Empire in the age of sail. Thematically related chapters explore the geographical, topographical, economic, and social diversity of the islands that comprised a large component of the British Empire in an era of rapid and significant expansion. Although many of these islands were isolated rocky outcrops, they acted as crucial nodal points, providing critical assistance for ships and men embarked on the long-distance voyages that characterised British overseas activities in the period. Intercontinental maritime trade, colonial settlement, and scientific exploration and experimentation would have been impossible without these oceanic islands. They also acted as sites of strategic competition, contestation, and conflict for rival European powers keen to outstrip each other in developing and maintaining overseas markets, plantations, and settlements. The importance of islands outstripped their physical size, the populations they sustained, or their individual economic contribution to the imperial balance sheet. Standing at the centre of maritime routes of global connectivity, islands offer historians of the British Empire fresh perspectives on the intercontinental communication, commercial connections, and territorial expansion that characterised that empire.

Sakhalin Island

Sakhalin Island
Author: Anton Chekhov
Publisher: Alma Books
Total Pages: 529
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0714545619

In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of Sakhalin. Now collected here in one volume are the fully annotated translations of his impressions of his trip through Siberia and the account of his three-month sojourn on Sakhalin Island, together with his notes and extracts from his letters to relatives and associates.Highly valuable both as a detailed depiction of the Tsarist system of penal servitude and as an insight into Chekhov's motivations and objectives for visiting the colony and writing the expose, Sakhalin Island is a haunting work which had a huge impact both on Chekhov's career and on Russian society.

Coolies of the Empire

Coolies of the Empire
Author: Ashutosh Kumar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108225691

This book studies Indian overseas labour migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which involved millions of Indians traversing the globe in the age of empire, subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833. This migration led to the presence of Indians and their culture being felt all over the world. This study delves deep into the lives of these indentured workers from India who called themselves girmitiyas; it is a narrative of their experiences in India and in the sugar colonies abroad. It foregrounds the alternative world view of the girmitiyas, and their socio-cultural and religious life in the colonies. In this book, the author has developed highly original insights into the experience of colonial indentured migrant labour, describing the ways in which migrants managed to survive and even flourish within the interstices of the indentured labour system and how considerably the experience of migration changed over time.

Island of Shame

Island of Shame
Author: David Vine
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2011-01-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0691149836

David Vine recounts how the British & US governments created the Diego Garcia base, making the native Chagossians homeless in the process. He details the strategic significance of this remote location & also describes recent efforts by the exiles to regain their territory.

Hookworm and Malaria Research in Malaya, Java, and the Fiji Islands

Hookworm and Malaria Research in Malaya, Java, and the Fiji Islands
Author: Rockefeller Foundation. International Health Board. Uncinariasis Commission to the Orient, 1915-1917
Publisher:
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1920
Genre: Hookworm disease
ISBN:

An abridgement of the report of the Commission.