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Historicising ancient slavery /

"Informed by the global history of slavery, Kostas Vlassopoulos avoids traditional approaches to slavery as a static institution and instead explores the diverse strategies and various contexts in which it was employed. In doing so he offers a new historicist approach to the study of slave iden...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vlassopoulos, Kostas, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
Colección:Edinburgh studies in ancient slavery.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Historiographies: The Formation of the Dominant Paradigm in the Study of Ancient Slavery ; The Global Study of Slavery ; Recent Developments in the Study of Ancient Slavery
  • 3. What Is Slavery?: An Instructive Case: Early Medieval Slavery and `Serfdom' ; The Conceptual Systems of Slavery
  • 4. Slaving Strategies and Contexts: Slaving Strategies ; Slaving Contexts ; Slave-making
  • 5. Enslaved Persons: Identification Modes and Forms of Relationships ; Categorisation, Self-understanding and Groupness
  • 6. Dialectical Relationships: The Master-Slave Relationship ; The Free-Slave Relationship ; The Relationships Within Slave Communities
  • 7. The Slave View of Slavery: Slave Hopes and the Reality of Slavery: Modalities of Slavery ; Exploring Slave Hopes under Slavery ; The Slave Hope for Freedom
  • 8. Slaving in Space and Time: Epichoric Systems of Slaving ; Societies with Slaves and Slave Societies ; Accounting for Change ; The Agency of Enslaved Persons and Historical Change
  • 9. Conclusions.