What is a slave society? : the practice of slavery in global perspective
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- ISBN: 1107144892
- ISBN: 9781107144897
- ISBN: 9781108633208 (PDF ebook)
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xvii, 508 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm - Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-499) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Machine generated contents note: 1. Framing the Question: What Is a Slave Society? / Noel Lenski -- pt. I ANCIENT AND LATE ANTIQUE WESTERN SOCIETIES -- 2. Ancient Greece as a "Slave Society" / Peter Hunt -- 3. Roman Slavery and the Idea of "Slave Society" / Walter Scheidel -- 4. Ancient Slaveries and Modern Ideology / Noel Lenski -- pt. II NON-WESTERN SMALL-SCALE SOCIETIES -- 5. Nature of Slavery in Small-Scale Societies / Catherine M. Cameron -- 6. Native American Slavery in Global Context / Christina Snyder -- 7. Slavery as Structure, Process, or Lived Experience, or Why Slave Societies Existed in Precontact Tropical America / Fernando Santos-Granero -- 8. Slavery in Societies on the Frontiers of Centralized States in West Africa / Paul E. Lovejoy -- pt. III MODERN WESTERN SOCIETIES -- 9. Colonial Brazilian "Slave Society": Potentialities, Limits, and Challenges to an Interpretative Model Inspired by Moses Finley / Aldair Carlos Rodrigues -- 10. What Is a Slave Society?: The American South / Robert Gudmestad -- 11. Islands of Slavery: Archaeology and Caribbean Landscapes of Intensification / Theresa Singleton -- pt. IV NON-WESTERN STATE SOCIETIES -- 12. Was Nineteenth-Century Eastern Arabia a "Slave Society"? / Matthew S. Hopper -- 13. Slavery and Society in East Africa, Oman, and the Persian Gulf / Bernard K. Freamon -- 14. Ottoman and Islamic Societies: Were They "Slave Societies"? / Ehud R. Toledano -- 15. Microhistorical Analysis of Korean Nobis through the Prism of the Lawsuit of Damulsari / Kim Bok-rae -- 16. "Slavery so Gentle": A Fluid Spectrum of Southeast Asian Conditions of Bondage / Anthony Reid. |
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Subject: | Slavery -- History Slavery -- Social aspects Slavery Slavery -- Social aspects |
Genre: | History. |
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