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Slavery, Diplomacy & Empire
Keith Hamilton
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Description for Slavery, Diplomacy & Empire
Paperback. Editor(s): Hamilton, Keith; Salmon, Patrick. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBTS; JPSD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 368.
Throughout the nineteenth century British governments engaged in a global campaign against the slave trade. They sought through coercion and diplomacy to suppress the trade on the high seas and in Africa and Asia. But, despite the Royal Navy's success in eradicating the transatlantic commerce in captive Africans, the forced migration of labour and other forms of people trafficking persisted. This collection of essays by specialist international, naval and slave trade historians examines the role played by individuals and institutions in the diplomacy of suppression, particularly the personnel of the Slave Trade Department of the Foreign Office and of the ... Read more
Throughout the nineteenth century British governments engaged in a global campaign against the slave trade. They sought through coercion and diplomacy to suppress the trade on the high seas and in Africa and Asia. But, despite the Royal Navy's success in eradicating the transatlantic commerce in captive Africans, the forced migration of labour and other forms of people trafficking persisted. This collection of essays by specialist international, naval and slave trade historians examines the role played by individuals and institutions in the diplomacy of suppression, particularly the personnel of the Slave Trade Department of the Foreign Office and of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
367g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845195731
SKU
V9781845195731
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Ref
99-50
About Keith Hamilton
Keith Hamilton is an historian in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Senior Editor of the series, Documents on British Policy Overseas. Patrick Salmon is Chief Historian in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Professor Emeritus of History in the University of Newcastle.
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