Bondage

<ul> <li> Provides the first global history of labor in Central Eurasia Russia Europe and the Indian Ocean between the 17<sup>th</sup> and the 20<sup>th</sup> century.</li> <li> Provides a new iconoclastic view of Russian serfdom and European labor during the industrial revolution.</li> <li> Provides a new link between the evolution of coerced labour (slavery serfdom and Indentured labour) in Eurasia and the Indian Ocean and the dynamics of free labour in the West.</li> <li> It overcomes the distinction between colonial studies and european history.</li> <li> Advances a new chronology of modernization.</li> <li> </li></ul>