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Index of Tables and Figures: Tables
Tab. 2.1: The rise and fall of some sugar-producing countries, 1780-1880 36 Tab. 2.2: Transcontinental movement of indentured workers, 1831-1920 39 Tab. 2.3: Peruvian guano and nitrate exports, 1841-1882 61 Tab. 4.1: Flags employed in the Peruvian coolie trade, first phase (1849-1857) 132 Tab. 4.2: Flags employed in the Peruvian coolie trade, second phase (1860-1874) 133 Tab. 4.3: Mortality on voyage in the nineteenth century, selected migration flows 144 Tab. 4.4: Chinese population in Cuba: geographical distribution 162 Tab. 4.5: Introduction of coolies and exports of cotton and sugarcane from
Peru, 1855-1875 166
Tab. 4.6: British opium imports in Peru, 1853-1879 171
Tab. 5.1: Italian coolie ships departing from Macao between 1865 and 1871 187 Tab. 5.2: Italian participation in the coolie trade: estimates 202
Figures
Fig. 1.1: Annual departure of coolies from South China 1847-1874 9
Fig. 3.1: Macao in the 1870s 79
Fig. 3.2: Pamphlet denouncing the use of the Italian flag in the “Ningbo
Massacre” of 1857 87
Fig. 3.3: Leaflet printed by the conspirators of the July 1871 attempted coup 105 Fig. 4.1: Contract between unlicensed corretores, 1869 114 Fig. 4.2: Correlation of mortality and length of voyages, coolie trade 145 Fig. 4.3: Annual mortality rates in the coolie trade, 1847-1874 146
Fig. 5.1: Genoese sailors at Callao, c. 1870 175
Fig. 5.2: National shares of the coolie trade to Peru and Cuba, 1847-1874 189 Fig. 5.3: National shares of the coolie trade to Peru, 1849-1874 189 Fig. 5.4: The White Falcon (later Napoleone Canevaro) in 1855 195 Fig. 5.5: Advertisements of Italian ships departing from California to China 198
Fig. 5.6: Statue of Giuseppe Canevaro 204
Maps
Map 1: Peru in the mid-nineteenth century 340
Map 2: Canton and the Pearl River Delta 341
