Barry Higman

Bio: Barry Higman is an academic researcher from Australian National University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Emancipation & Population. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 47 publications receiving 1328 citations. Previous affiliations of Barry Higman include University of Wollongong & Johns Hopkins University.

Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834

Abstract: Reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984 (see HLAS 48:2517b). Excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive data available from slave registration returns for various

Slave Populations of the British Caribbean, 1807-1834

Abstract: This book is a reprint of work that originally appeared in 1984. It gives excellent and thorough treatment of major demographic aspects of British Caribbean slavery from abolition of slave trade to slave emancipation. Draws heavily on extensive date available from slave registration returns for various islands to provide comparative perspective of nature of slave life. It is essential for serious scholars of the region.

The Caribbean Slave: A Biological History

Abstract: List of tables Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Background and Biology: Introduction 1. The peoples and their pathogens 2. West African diet and disease 3. The parameters of West African survival Part II. Diet, Disease, and Demography: Introduction 4. The middle passage and malnutrition 5. Plantation nutrition 6. Malnutrition: morbidity and mortality 7. Slave demography 8. Slave infant and child mortality 9. Black diseases and white medicine Part III. Pathogens and Politics: Introduction 10. Fevers and race 11. Epilogue: diet, disease, and displacement Notes Bibliographic essay Index.

Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History

Abstract: In this path-breaking work, Susan Buck-Morss draws new connections between history, inequality, social conflict, and human emancipation. "Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History" offers a fundamental reinterpretation of Hegel's master-slave dialectic and points to a way forward to free critical theoretical practice from the prison-house of its own debates.Historicizing the thought of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and the actions taken in the Haitian Revolution, Buck-Morss examines the startling connections between the two and challenges us to widen the boundaries of our historical imagination. She finds that it is in the discontinuities of historical flow, the edges of human experience, and the unexpected linkages between cultures that the possibility to transcend limits is discovered. It is these flashes of clarity that open the potential for understanding in spite of cultural differences. What Buck-Morss proposes amounts to a "new humanism," one that goes beyond the usual ideological implications of such a phrase. She asks us to embrace a radical neutrality that insists on the permeability of the space between opposing sides and reaches for a common humanity.

Bibliography “Food as Heritage”

Abstract: The following bibliography is conceived as a selection of international literature on food as heritage and as a marker of identity within the huge amount of works recently produced on the topic of food. The bibliography has been produced within the “Food as heritage” project, performed at University of Bologna and coordinated by Ilaria Porciani, with a team composed by Massimo Montanari, Paolo Capuzzo, Raffaele Laudani and Marica Tolomelli. “Food as heritage” is part of a wider projec...

Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World

Abstract: Introduction Anthropology and the Savage Slot Global Transformations Adieu, Culture The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization Anthropology for a Changing World A Note on Methodology: Beyond Fieldwork Who Needs Anthropologists?

Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2014)

Abstract: For 2014 the bibliography continues its customary coverage of secondary writings published since 1900 in western European languages on slavery or the slave trade anywhere in the world: monographs, ...

Slavery and Supervision in Comparative Perspective: A Model

Abstract: The familiar transaction-costs model is extended to allow for the varying costs and benefits of supervision and pain incentives on the one hand, and ordinary rewards on the other, in differentially effort- and care-intensive activities. Applied to unfree labor, this model accounts for the observed patterns of slave governance and manumission in extractive, industrial, agricultural, and service activities in antiquity and in the New World. Applied to free labor, it accounts for wage work on large estates in labor-surplus medieval England or modern Italy, the choice between bonuses and penalties in industrial contracts, and the growing paternalism of our own time.