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LEADER: 02605cam a22003374a 4500
001 2004000731
003 DLC
005 20060725220937.0
008 040113s2004 ncu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2004000731
020 $a0807828777 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $ae-uk---
050 00 $aKD1634.A75$bM37 2004
082 00 $a346.4102/4$222
245 00 $aMasters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955 /$cedited by Douglas Hay and Paul Craven.
260 $aChapel Hill :$bUniversity of North Carolina Press,$cc2004.
300 $axi, 592 p. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aStudies in legal history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 529-559) and indexes.
505 0 $aEngland, 1562-1875 : the law and its uses / Douglas Hay -- Early British America, 1585-1830 : freedom bound / Christopher Tomlins -- Law and labor in eighteenth-century Newfoundland / Jerry Bannister -- Canada, 1670-1935 : symbolic and instrumental enforcement in loyalist North America / Paul Craven -- Australia, 1788-1902 : a workingman's paradise? / Michael Quinlan -- The Colonial Office, 1820-1955 : constantly the subject of small struggles / M.K. Banton -- The British Caribbean, 1823-1838 : the transition from slave to free legal status / Mary Turner -- Urban British Guiana, 1838-1924 : wharf rats, centipedes, and pork knockers / Juanita de Barros -- South Africa, 1841-1924 : race, contract, and coercion / Martin Chanock -- Hong Kong, 1841-1870 : all the servants in prison and nobody to take care of the house / Christopher Munn -- Britain : the defeat of the 1844 master and servants bill / Christopher Frank -- India, 1858-1930 : the illusion of free labor / Michael Anderson -- Assam and the West Indies, 1860-1920 : immobilizing plantation labor / Prabhu P. Mohapatra -- West Afrira, 1874-1948 : employment legislation in a nonsettler peasant economy / Richard Rathbone -- Kenya, 1895-1939 : registration and rough justice / David M. Anderson.
650 0 $aMaster and servant$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aLabor contract$zGreat Britain$xHistory.
650 0 $aMaster and servant$zGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory.
650 0 $aLabor contract$zGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory.
700 1 $aHay, Douglas.
700 1 $aCraven, Paul,$d1950-
856 42 $3Book review (H-Net)$uhttp://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0e1z3-aa
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0413/2004000731.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0632/2004000731-d.html