The Ottoman Slave Trade and Its Suppression
1840-1890
Will be published approx. on 19. April 2016
Book
Hardback
326 pages
978-0-691-64162-1 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a historical account of the slave trading system of the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the nineteenth century and of the attempts, which were eventually successful, to suppress it. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
655 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-691-64162-1 (9780691641621)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
E-Book
03/2015
1st Edition
Princeton University Press
€56.99
Available for download
Person
Ehud R. Toledano
Content
*FrontMatter, pg. iii*Contents, pg. vii*LIST OF MAPS, pg. xi*NOTES, pg. xiii*PREFACE, pg. xvii*INTRODUCTION, pg. 1*CHAPTER I. From Source to Market- The Ottoman Slave-Trading Network in the Nineteenth Century, pg. 14*CHAPTER II. The Economics and Volume of the Ottoman Traffic, pg. 55*CHAPTER III. The Road to Prohibition- Anglo-Ottoman Contacts Regarding the Suppression of the Slave Trade, 1840-1855, pg. 91*CHAPTER IV. Prohibition and Resignation- The African Versus the Caucasian Traffic in the Late 1850s, pg. 124*CHAPTER V. Circassian Slavery and Slave Trade- an Ottoman Solution, pg. 148*CHAPTER VI. Between Prohibition and Convention- The African Slave Trade to the Ottoman Empire, 1857-1877, pg. 192*CHAPTER VII. Anti-Slave Trade Conventions and the Decline of the African Traffic, 1877-1890, pg. 224*CHAPTER VIII. Some General Aspects of British Pressure and Ottoman Reaction, pg. 249*EPILOGUE, pg. 279*BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE, pg. 285*SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 291*INDEX, pg. 299