Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula Contributor(s): Reilly, Benjamin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0821421824 ISBN-13: 9780821421826 Publisher: Ohio University Press OUR PRICE: $29.66 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Slavery - History | Middle East - Arabian Peninsula |
Dewey: 306.362 |
LCCN: 2015026456 |
Series: Ecology & History |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.70 lbs) 222 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |