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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]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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: ch. 1 Traditional Arabian Agriculture -- ch. 2 Diggers and Delvers -- African Servile Agriculture in the Arabian Peninsula -- ch. 3 Case Study -- Khaybar -- ch. 4 Oasis Fever -- Malaria as a Factor in Arabian Agricultural Slavery -- ch. 5 Arabian Agricultural Slavery in the Longue Duree -- ch. 6 Conclusions.
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Subject Slavery -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
Slavery.
Arabian Peninsula.
History.
Africans -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
Africans.
Enslaved persons -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
Enslaved persons.
Agricultural laborers -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
Agricultural laborers.
Malaria -- Social aspects -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
Malaria -- Social aspects.
Malaria.
Agriculture -- Health aspects -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
Agriculture -- Health aspects.
Agriculture.
Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
Agriculture -- Social aspects.
Agriculture -- Environmental aspects -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
Agriculture -- Environmental aspects.
Oases -- Arabian Peninsula -- History.
Oases.
Arabian Peninsula -- Environmental conditions -- History.
Environmental conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Reilly, Benjamin, 1971- Slavery, agriculture, and malaria in the Arabian Peninsula 9780821421819 (DLC) 2015026456 (OCoLC)910981046
ISBN 9780821445402 (electronic book)
0821445405 (electronic book)
9780821421819 (electronic book)
0821421816 (electronic book)
9780821421826 (electronic book)
0821421824 (electronic book)
Standard No. ebc4050755