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As if silent and absent : bonds of enslavement in the Islamic Middle East /
This groundbreaking book reconceptualizes slavery through the voices of enslaved persons themselves, voices that have remained silent in the narratives of conventional history. Focusing in particular on the Islamic Middle East from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, Ehud Toledano ex...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2007.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: between now and then, the pain lingers on
- Understanding enslavement as a human bond
- Leaving a violated bond
- Turning to the "patron state" for redress
- Opting for crime in order to survive
- Taming the unknown with the familiar.