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Masters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955
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Masters, servants, and magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562-1955

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England, 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.

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