Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants

Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants

Alessandro Stanziani

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2014
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Historia de Asia
ISBN:
9781137448453

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Slaves, convicts, indentured immigrants, and unfree seamen have traveled the world’s oceans at many times and places throughout human history. Across the Atlantic, Mediterranean, Indian, and Pacific Oceans, this bondage took divergent forms and exhibited a

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