Book contents
- Colonialism in Global Perspective
- Colonialism in Global Perspective
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Interlocking Colonial Histories
- Chapter 1 War
- Chapter 2 Settlement
- Chapter 3 Plantation
- Chapter 4 Port
- Part II Elementary Aspects of Colonial Power
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 4 - Port
from Part I - Interlocking Colonial Histories
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 April 2020
- Colonialism in Global Perspective
- Colonialism in Global Perspective
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Interlocking Colonial Histories
- Chapter 1 War
- Chapter 2 Settlement
- Chapter 3 Plantation
- Chapter 4 Port
- Part II Elementary Aspects of Colonial Power
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter follows the new mobilities and barriers across the Indian Ocean that arose with colonial capitalist wars beginning in the 1700s. Asian migrants, their experience of indentured labor, and their modes of contestation, endurance, and resistance feature centrally here.
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- Colonialism in Global Perspective , pp. 100 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020