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Article: Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean.(Review)
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- January 1, 2001
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Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean. By Madhavi Kale. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Pp. iii, 236. $37.50.)
The migration of more than two million Indian, Chinese, and other non-European indentured workers to various parts of the colonial plantation world between the 1830s and the first decades of the twentieth century remains a subject of abiding scholarly interest. The mid-1990s witnessed the publication of the collection of essays on plantation worker resistance and accommodation in the South Pacific and Latin America edited by Brij V. Lal, Doug Munro, and Edward D. Beechert; ...