Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula (Paperback)

In Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key to understanding this unusual system, Reilly argues, is the prevalence of malaria within Arabian Peninsula oases and drainage basins, which rendered agricultural lands in Arabia extremely unhealthy for people without genetic or acquired resistance to malarial fevers. In this way, Arabian slave agriculture had unexpected similarities to slavery as practiced in the Caribbean and Brazil. This book synthesizes for the first time a body of historical and ethnographic data about slave-based agriculture in the Arabian Peninsula. Reilly uses an innovative methodology to analyze the limited historical record and a multidisciplinary approach to complicate our understandings of the nature of work in an area that is popularly thought of solely as desert. This work makes significant contributions both to the global literature on slavery and to the environmental history of the Middle East-an area that has thus far received little attention from scholars.

General

Imprint:	Ohio University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Series in Ecology and History
Release date:	October 2015
First published:	2015
Authors:	Benjamin Reilly
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	222
ISBN-13:	978-0-8214-2182-6
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Historical geography Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Slavery & emancipation Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8214-2182-4
Barcode:	9780821421826

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