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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 comparison, and include specific case-studies ranging from the ancient forms of slavery of classical Greece and of the Roman empire to the modern examples of slavery that characterised the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. The results demonstrate both how much the modern world has inherited from the ancient in regard to ideology and practice of slavery; and also how many of the issues and problems related to the latter seem to have been fundamentally similar across time and space. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 375 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-359) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511388262 0511388268 9780511384417 0511384416 051138727X 9780511387272 051138260X 9780511382604 9786611254957 6611254951 9781107185135 1107185130 0511386249 9780511386244 0511482744 9780511482748 1281254959 9781281254955 0511380437 9780511380433 |