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100 1 _aReilly, Benjamin,
_d1971-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aSlavery, agriculture, and malaria in the Arabian Peninsula /
_cBenjamin Reilly.
264 1 _aAthens :
_bOhio University Press,
_c[2015]
264 4 _c©2015
300 _a1 online resource (165 pages) :
_billustrations.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aOhio University Press series in ecology and history
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aSlavery
_zArabian Peninsula
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAfricans
_zArabian Peninsula
_xHistory.
650 0 _aSlaves
_zArabian Peninsula
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAgricultural laborers
_zArabian Peninsula
_xHistory.
650 0 _aMalaria
_xSocial aspects
_zArabian Peninsula
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAgriculture
_xHealth aspects
_zArabian Peninsula
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAgriculture
_xSocial aspects
_zArabian Peninsula
_xHistory.
650 0 _aAgriculture
_xEnvironmental aspects
_zArabian Peninsula
_xHistory.
650 0 _aOases
_zArabian Peninsula
_xHistory.
651 0 _aArabian Peninsula
_xEnvironmental conditions
_xHistory.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aReilly, Benjamin.
_tSlavery, agriculture, and malaria in the Arabian Peninsula.
_dAthens : Ohio University Press, [2015]
_kOhio University Press series in ecology and history
_z9780821421819
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 0 _aOhio University Press series in ecology and history.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=11117913
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
908 _a170314
942 0 0 _cEB
999 _c185273
_d185273