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Author Reilly, Benjamin, 1971- author.

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

Publication Info. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note Print version record.
Summary "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.
Contents Machine generated contents note: chapter 1 Traditional Arabian Agriculture -- chapter 2 Diggers and Delvers -- African Servile Agriculture in the Arabian Peninsula -- chapter 3 Case Study -- Khaybar -- chapter 4 Oasis Fever -- Malaria as a Factor in Arabian Agricultural Slavery -- chapter 5 Arabian Agricultural Slavery in the Longue Duree -- chapter 6 Conclusions.
Subject Enslaved persons -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
Slavery. (OCoLC)fst01120426
Agriculture -- Health aspects -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
Africans. (OCoLC)fst00799938
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Agriculture -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00801646
Africans -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
Slavery -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
Malaria -- Social aspects -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
Agriculture -- Health aspects. (OCoLC)fst00801531
Arabian Peninsula -- Environmental conditions -- History.
Malaria -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01006367
Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
Agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Agricultural laborers. (OCoLC)fst00800949
Agricultural laborers -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Subject HISTORY -- General.
Enslaved persons. (OCoLC)fst01120522
Oases -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject Agriculture -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst00801499
Oases. (OCoLC)fst01042635
Arabian Peninsula. (OCoLC)fst01240131
Other Form: Print version: Reilly, Benjamin, 1971- Slavery, agriculture, and malaria in the Arabian Peninsula 9780821421819 (DLC) 2015026456 (OCoLC)910981046
Standard No. ebc4050755
ISBN 9780821445402 (electronic bk.)
0821445405 (electronic bk.)
9780821421819
0821421816
9780821421826
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