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This chapter analyzes the punitive relationships among slaves, slaveholders and colonial authorities from the perspective of paternalism. Focusing on the territory of the colonial Audiencia de Quito and the Republic of Ecuador between the early eighteenth century and the abolition of slavery in 1851, the chapter proceeds in three directions. The first section addresses the interactions between the State and the slaveholders through the lens of "protection." The second section turns to paternalism as a repertoire of both legitimation and contestation of punishment. The final section assesses the continuities and discontinuities in the impact of paternalism on the punishments of slaves across time, both during and beyond the colonial period.

AbstractThis article features a connected history of punitive relocations in the Spanish Empire, from the independence of Spanish America to the "loss" of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines in 1898. Three levels of entanglement are highlighted here: the article looks simultaneously at punitive flows stemming from the colonies and from the metropole; it brings together the study of penal transportation, administrative deportation, and military deportation; and it discusses the relationship between punitive relocations and imprisonment. As part of this special issue, foregrounding "perspectives from the colonies", I start with an analysis of the punitive flows that stemmed from the overseas provinces. I then address punishment in the metropole through the colonial lens, before highlighting the entanglements of penal transportation and deportation in the nineteenth-century Spanish Empire as a whole.

This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the past, we propose a "micro-spatial" approach, combining micro-history with the concept of space. A focus on primary sources and awareness of the historical discontinuities and unevennesses characterizes the global history that emerges here. We use labour as our lens in this volume. The resulting micro-spatial history of labour addresses the management and recruitment of labour, its voluntary and coerced spatial mobility, its political perception and representation and the workers' own agency and social networks. The individual chapters are written by contributors whose expertise covers the late medieval Eastern Mediterranean to present-day Sierra Leone, through early modern China and Italy, eighteenth-century Cuba and the Malvinas/Falklands, the journeys of a missionary between India and Brazil and those of Christian captives across the Ottoman empire and Spain. The result is a highly readable volume that addresses key theoretical and methodological questions in historiography.

"Globalizzazione", delocalizzazione produttiva, precarizzazione, flussi migratori, organizzazione e condizioni di lavoro, crisi economica e finanziaria: sono queste alcune delle questioni centrali del mondo attuale ed è questa la materia prima di cui è fatta la Global labour history, un approccio storiografico di cui si discute ovunque nel mondo e che i sei scritti raccolti in questo volume presentano per la prima volta al pubblico ita-liano. Dialogando con sviluppi quali quello della World History, che stanno profondamente trasformando gli studi storici su scala globale, la Global labour history apre la storia del lavoro in direzione di nuove figure ed esperienze, collocate oltre il tradizionale primato della classe operaia industriale definita in termini nazionali. In questo modo, offre anche preziosi strumenti per l'analisi della composizione del lavoro vivo contemporaneo. Ne emerge uno sguardo globale e di lungo periodo sulle trasformazioni del lavoro e della società, capace di rompere le gabbie dell'eurocentrismo e del nazionalismo. Una rivoluzione storiografica e, insieme, uno strumento fondamentale per comprendere quanto sta cambiando nelle nostre vite e nel mondo in cui viviamo

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This introduction highlights the contribution of the special issue to a radical contextualisation of the history of the enslaved. In particular, it suggests that the conditions and circumstances that foster or hamper practices of enslavement need to be studied as part of a broader set of labor relations. And it proposes that shifts in the practices of enslavement are closely related to broader transitions in power relations. This double expansion allows connecting the history of enslavement and the enslaved with broader themes in labor and social history.