Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula

Benjamin Reilly is an associate teaching professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University's Qatar campus. He is the author of Disaster and Human History: Case Studies in Nature, Society and Catastrophe and Tropical Surge: A History of Ambition and Disaster on the Florida Shore.

"A lucid and compelling account of the slave experience in a region long ignored by historians of slavery…. [It is] a valuable case study that underscores the need for historians to pay closer attention to the ways in which environmental factors shaped the slave experience in various parts of the world." "Reilly's valuable book is a rare environmental and medical history of the Arabian Peninsula, which fills a gap in the literature. This study will benefit not only specialists in environmental history but also students and researchers of the history of medicine and technology." (Canadian Journal of History) "Reilly's valuable book is a rare environmental and medical history of the Arabian Peninsula,which fills a gap in the literature. This study will benefit not only specialists in environmentalhistory but also students and researchers of the history of medicine and technology."(Canadian Journal of History) "Reilly has been particularly resourceful in drawing upon diverse disciplines and datasets. The result is a bold, stimulating study that will hopefully provoke furth scholarly engagement with this important topic." (International Journal of Archaeology and Social Sciences in the Arabian Peninsula) "Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria successfully illuminates the history of unfree laborers in a little studied region and is able to do so persuasively by using limited source material." (Journal of Social History)