Racist regimes, forced labour and death : British slavery in the Caribbean and the Holocaust in Germany and Occupied Europe / Colin Clarke.

Author
Clarke, Colin G. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland, [2024]
Description
xvii, 278 pages : maps (black and white) ; 22 cm.

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Global diversities [More in this series]
Summary note
"This book compares the systems of exploitative race relations associated with two racist regimes -- slavery in the British colonial Caribbean and forced labour in the Holocaust in Germany and the Nazi-occupied lands in Europe. Although each system was introduced by expansionist European powers, through racist enslavement, transportation, dehumanisation and the destruction of human life, the construction and operation of sugar plantations by African and Creole slave labour for the export of tropical products in the period 1650 to 1838 was different from the mass murder of Jewish and Gypsy civilians with the intention of creating a forced-labour regime and colonial-style ethnic cleansing during the Second World War. Though differentiated in time and place, the four principal common denominators that make feasible the detailed comparison of British Caribbean slavery and the Holocaust in Europe are racism, colonialism/occupation, slavery/forced labour, and death. Juxtaposition of these two companion studies will reveal comparisons and contrasts previously unexplored in the field of race relations under colonialism and the Holocaust. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of the social sciences and history, particularly those with an engagement with slavery and forced labour, the sociology of race and racism, and Holocaust studies." -- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other title(s)
British slavery in the Caribbean and the Holocaust in Germany and Occupied Europe
ISBN
  • 3031555430 (hardcover)
  • 9783031555435 (hardcover)
OCLC
1420138183
Other standard number
  • CIPO000075601
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