Slave systems ancient and modern
A ground-breaking edited collection charting the rise and fall of forms of unfree labour in the ancient Mediterranean and in the modern Atlantic, employing the methodology of comparative history. The eleven chapters in the book deal with conceptual issues and different approaches to historical compa...
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Cambridge University Press
2008
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Inhaltsangabe:
- The study of ancient and modern slave systems : setting an agenda for comparison Enrico Dal Lago and Constantina Katsari Slavery, gender, and work in the pre-modern world and early Greece : a cross-cultural analysis Orlando Patterson Slaving as historical process : examples from the ancient Mediterranean and the modern Atlantic Joseph C. Miller The comparative economics of slavery in the Greco-Roman world Walter Scheidel Slavery and technology in pre-industrial contexts Tracey Rihll Comparing or interlinking? : economic comparisons of early nineteenth-century slave systems in the Americas in historical perspective Michael Zeuske Ideal models of slave management in the Roman world and in the ante-bellum American South Enrico Dal Lago and Constantina Katsari Panis, disciplina, et opus servo : the Jesuit ideology in Portuguese America and Greco-Roman ideas of slavery Rafael de Bivar Marquese and Fábio Duarte Joly Processes of exiting the slave systems : a typology Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau Emancipation schemes : different ways of ending slavery Stanley Engerman Spartiates, helots, and the direction of the agrarian economy: toward an understanding of helotage in comparative perspective Stephen Hodkinson