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Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern

Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern

Hardcover

Ancient History GeneralGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521881838
ISBN13: 9780521881838
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 13 2008
Pages: 390
Weight: 1.68
Height: 1.14 Width: 6.38 Depth: 8.95
Language: English
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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