Paper 21 reading list - Faculty of History

A. J. H. Latham, Old Calabar, 1600-1891 (1973)
P.E. Lovejoy and D. Richardson, ‘Trust, Pawnship, and Atlantic History: The Institutional Foundations of the Old
Calabar Slave Trade’ American Historical Review 104 (1999), pp. 333-355
K. Mann and E. Bay (eds.) ‘Rethinking the African Diaspora’ Slavery and Abolition Special Issue 22, 1 (2001)
P. Morgan, ‘The Cultural Implications of the Atlantic Slave Trade: African Regional Origins, American Destinations and
New World Developments’ Slavery and Abolition 18 (1997), pp. 122-45
D. Northrup, Trade Without Rulers (1978)
D. Northrup, Africa’s Discovery of Europe, 1450-1850 (2002)
P.D. Morgan and S. Hawkins (eds.), Black Experience and the Empire (2004). Chapters by Northrup and Morgan.
A. Ryder, Benin and the Europeans, 1495-1897 (1969)
R.J. Sparks, ‘Two Princes of Calabar: An Atlantic Odyssey From Slavery To Freedom’ William and Mary Quarterly 59
(2002), pp. 555-58
J.K. Thornton, Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (1992)
7c) Indian Ocean
Question: What kinds of systems of unfree labour existed in the western Indian Ocean in the 18 th and 19 th
centuries, and how would you characterise the societies which were created as a result of
them?
Marina Carter, ‘Slavery and Unfree Labour in the Indian Ocean’ History Compass (online, 2006) : 10.1111/j.1478-
0542.2006.00346.x
Edward Alpers, ‘Recollecting Africa: Diasporic Memory in the Indian Ocean World’, African Studies Review, 43
(2000), 83-99
Richard Allen, Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Labour in Colonial Mauritius, Cambridge, 1999
Richard Allen, ‘Licentious and Unbridled proceedings : the illegal slave trade to Mauritius and the Seychelles in
the early nineteenth century’, JAH, 42 (2002), 91-117
Anthony Barker, Slavery and Antislavery in Mauritius, 1810-1833, 1996
Marina Carter, Servants, Sirdars and Settlers: Indians in Mauritius, 1834-1874, 1995
Megan Vaughan, Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth Century Mauritius, 2005
Janet Ewald, ‘Crossers of the Sea: Slaves, Freedmen and other Migrants in the Northwestern Indian Ocean
1750-1914’, American Historical Review, 105 (2000), 69-92
8 W A R A N D B R I T I S H E X P A N S I O N T O C I R C A 1 8 3 0 (see also topic 6 above)
Is continuity or change the main feature of British expansion between 1760 and 1830?
PJ Marshall (ed.) Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire (1996)
KR Andrews Trade, Plunder and Settlement: British Empire 1480–1830 (1984)
P Cain & A Hopkins ‘Political Economy of British Expansion 1750–1914’, EcHR 33 (1980)
IR Christie Crisis of Empire: Great Britain and American Colonies 1754–83
VT Harlow Founding of the Second British Empire I, 1–222, 299–311, 483–92; II, 254–318, 339–483,
544–654, 782–800
Maya Jasanoff Liberty’s exiles. The loss of America and the remaking of the British Empire (2011)
R Hyam ‘British imperial expansion in late 18th century’, HJ 10 (1967)
P Marshall ‘First and second British empires: . . . demarcation’, History 49 (1964)
DL Mackay ‘Direction and purpose in British imperial policy 1783–1801’, HJ 17 (1974)
C A Bayly, Imperial Meridian (1989) or Birth Of the Modern World (2004 )chs. 2/3.
R Davis Industrial Revolution and Overseas Trade
R Hyam & GW Martin Reappraisals in British Imperial History (1975), chapters 1–3 and 7
PJ Cain Economic Foundations of British Overseas Expansion 1815–1914
D Landes The Unbound Prometheus (1969)
DA Farnie English Cotton Industry and World Market 1815–96, 3–44 and 81–134