Humanitarian Intervention and Changing Labor Relations

Marcel van der Linden (1952) is Research Director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He has published extensively on labor and working class history including Workers of the World. Essays toward a Global Labor History (Brill, 2008).

• AcknowledgementsNotes on contributorsMaps, figures and tablesIntroduction, Marcel van der LindenAppendix: An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1807)POLITICS OF MEMORYCommemorating abolition, 1807-2007, James WalvinNew challenges for historians: the veil of post-slavery society in Surinam, 1808-2008, Angelie SensABOLITIONSWas abolition of the American and British slave trade significant in the broader Atlantic context?, David EltisThe limited impact of 1808 in Brazil, Dick GearyRevolution and emancipation: the role of abolitionism in ending slavery in the Americas, Robin BlackburnAbolition from below: the 1808 revolt in the Cape Colony, Nicole UlrichSlavery after the abolition of the slave trade: the United States and the British West Indies, Stanley EngermanThe Abolition Act and the development of abolitionist movements in 19th century Europe, Andreas GestrichCONSEQUENCES“As always, the trouble is with the French.” Britain, France, the Netherlands and the colonial labor market in the 19th century, Pieter C. EmmerWhat came after Emancipation? A micro-historical comparison between Cuba and the United States, Michael Zeuske and Norbert FinzschLand policies in Jamaica, 1830-1940, Claus Füllberg-StollbergAbolitionist rhetorics, colonial conquest, and the slow death of slavery in Germany’s African empire, Andreas EckertMore continuity than change? New forms of unfree labor in the Belgian Congo, 1908-1930, Julia SeibertThe discourse on free labor and the forced Cultivation System: the contradictory consequences of the abolition of the slave trade in colonial Java, 1811-1870, Ulbe BosmaIndenture, Grand Narratives and fragmented histories: the Dutch East Indies, c. 1880-1940, Roger KnightPERSPECTIVESThe long-term trajectory of anti-slavery in international politics: from the expansion of the European international system to unequal international development, Susan ZimmermannBibliographyIndex