Andreas Eckert: Down-to-Earth Machines of Exploitation. Colonialism, Slavery, and Current Debates
In this conversation with RevDem guest contributor Norman Aselmeyer, Andreas Eckert – author of German-language overviews of the history of colonialism and of slavery – presents his approach to the history of colonialism and how the study of this subject has evolved in the early 21st century; reflects on the special challenges of composing a global history of slavery; shares his views on the ongoing German debates regarding colonial crimes; and discusses the current state and special pitfalls of global history writing.
Andreas Eckert, historian of modern Africa at Humboldt University in…
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