Slave Systems : Ancient and Modern
Enrico. Dal Lago
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2008
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (391 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; PART I Slavery, slave systems, world history, and comparative history; CHAPTER 1 The study of ancient and modern slave systems: setting an agenda for comparison; CHAPTER 2 Slavery, gender, and work in the pre-modern world and early Greece: a cross-cultural analysis; CHAPTER 3 Slaving as historical process: examples from the ancient Mediterranean and the modern Atlantic; PART II Economics and technology of ancient and modern slave systems. - CHAPTER 4 The comparative economics of slavery in the Greco-Roman worldCHAPTER 5 Slavery and technology in pre-industrial contexts; CHAPTER 6 Comparing or interlinking? Economic comparisons of early nineteenth-century slave systems in the Americas in historical perspective; PART III Ideologies and practices of management in ancient and modern slavery; CHAPTER 7 Ideal models of slave management in the Roman world and in the ante-bellum American South; CHAPTER 8 Panis, disciplina, et opus servo: the Jesuit ideology in Portuguese America and Greco-Roman ideas of slavery. - PART IV Exiting Slave SystemsCHAPTER 9 Processes of exiting the slave systems: a typology; CHAPTER 10 Emancipation schemes: different ways of ending slavery; PART V Slavery and unfree labour, ancient and modern; CHAPTER 11 Spartiates, helots and the direction of the agrarian economy: toward an understanding of helotage in comparative perspective; Bibliography; Index. - Compares features of slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the modern Atlantic world.
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| ISBN | 9780521881838
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