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260 a| Athens :b| Ohio University Press,c| [2015];

300 a| x, 211 pages :b| illustrations, maps ;c| 23 cm.;

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520 2 a| "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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Slavery, agriculture, and malaria in the Arabian Peninsula / Benjamin Reilly.

Author/creator	Reilly, Benjamin, 1971-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Athens : Ohio University Press, [2015]
Description	x, 211 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Slavery--Arabian Peninsula. --History. Africans--Arabian Peninsula. --History. Enslaved persons--Arabian Peninsula. --History. Agricultural laborers--Arabian Peninsula. --History. Malaria--Social aspects. --Arabian Peninsula. --History. Agriculture--Health aspects. --Arabian Peninsula. --History. Agriculture--Social aspects. --Arabian Peninsula. --History. Agriculture--Environmental aspects. --Arabian Peninsula. --History. Oases--Arabian Peninsula. --History. Arabian Peninsula--Environmental conditions. --History.

Series	Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
Scope and content	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 185 -205) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2015026456
ISBN	9780821421819 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
ISBN	9780821421826 (paperback : acid-free paper)

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