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A history of slavery and emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929 / Behnaz A. Mirzai

Author
Mirzai, Behnaz A.
Published
Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Edition
First edition.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 324 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Contents
Commerce and slavery on Iran's frontiers, 1600/1800 : an overview -- Slavery and forging new Iranian frontiers, 1800/1900 -- The trade in enslaved people from Africa to Iran, 1800/1900 -- Patterns of enslavement -- Slaves in nineteenth-century Iran -- Slave trade suppression legislation -- Anti-slavery debates within Iran -- Emancipation -- Final thoughts.
Summary
Slavery in the Middle East is a growing field of study, but the history of slavery in a key country, Iran, has never before been written. This history extends to Africa in the west and India in the east, to Russia and Turkmenistan in the north, and to the Arab states in the south. As the slave trade between Iran and these regions shifted over time, it transformed the nation and helped forge its unique culture and identity. Thus, a history of Iranian slavery is crucial to understanding the character of the modern nation. Drawing on extensive archival research in Iran, Tanzania, England, and France, as well as fieldwork and interviews in Iran, Behnaz A. Mirzai offers the first history of slavery in modern Iran from the early nineteenth century to emancipation in the mid-twentieth century. She investigates how foreign military incursion, frontier insecurity, political instability, and economic crisis altered the patterns of enslavement, as well as the ethnicity of the slaves themselves. Mirzai's interdisciplinary analysis illuminates the complex issues surrounding the history of the slave trade and the process of emancipation in Iran, while also giving voice to social groups that have never been studied-enslaved Africans and Iranians. Her research builds a clear case that the trade in slaves was inexorably linked to the authority of the state. During periods of greater decentralization, slave trading increased, while periods of greater governmental autonomy saw more freedom and peace.
Report Numbers
Z UA380.8 M679hi
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ISBN
9781477311875 (electronic bk.)
1477311874 (electronic bk.)
9781477311882 (non-library e-book)
1477311882 (non-library e-book)
9781477311752 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1477311750 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9781477311868 (paperback ; alk. paper)
1477311866 (paperback ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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