Author: Moses I. Finley
Publisher: Markus Wiener Pub
ISBN: 9781558761704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The author compares slave societies with the ir relatively modern counterparts in the New World to show a new perspective on the history of slavery. He sheds light o n the complex ways in which ideological interests affect his torical interpretation. '"
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
Author: Moses I. Finley
Publisher: Markus Wiener Pub
ISBN: 9781558761704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The author compares slave societies with the ir relatively modern counterparts in the New World to show a new perspective on the history of slavery. He sheds light o n the complex ways in which ideological interests affect his torical interpretation. '"
Publisher: Markus Wiener Pub
ISBN: 9781558761704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The author compares slave societies with the ir relatively modern counterparts in the New World to show a new perspective on the history of slavery. He sheds light o n the complex ways in which ideological interests affect his torical interpretation. '"
Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology
Author: Moses I. Finley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Four lectures presented at the Colláege de France in November and December 1978. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 185-194.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Four lectures presented at the Colláege de France in November and December 1978. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 185-194.
What is a Slave Society?
Author: Noel Emmanuel Lenski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107144892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Interrogates the traditional binary 'slave societies'/'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107144892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Interrogates the traditional binary 'slave societies'/'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.
Slave Systems
Author: Enrico Dal Lago
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009113847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781009113847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
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.
The Ancient Economy
Author: Moses I. Finley
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520024366
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"The Ancient Economy holds pride of place among the handful of genuinely influential works of ancient history. This is Finley at the height of his remarkable powers and in his finest role as historical iconoclast and intellectual provocateur. It should be required reading for every student of pre-modern modes of production, exchange, and consumption."--Josiah Ober, author of Political Dissent in Democratic Athens
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520024366
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"The Ancient Economy holds pride of place among the handful of genuinely influential works of ancient history. This is Finley at the height of his remarkable powers and in his finest role as historical iconoclast and intellectual provocateur. It should be required reading for every student of pre-modern modes of production, exchange, and consumption."--Josiah Ober, author of Political Dissent in Democratic Athens
Slaves and Slavery in Ancient Greece
Author: Sara Forsdyke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107032342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Recovers the voices, experiences and agency of enslaved people in ancient Greece.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107032342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Recovers the voices, experiences and agency of enslaved people in ancient Greece.
Plautus and Roman Slavery
Author: Roberta Stewart
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405196289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book studies a crucial phase in the history of Roman slavery, beginning with the transition to chattel slavery in the third century bce and ending with antiquity’s first large-scale slave rebellion in the 130s bce. Slavery is a relationship of power, and to study slavery – and not simply masters or slaves – we need to see the interactions of individuals who speak to each other, a rare kind of evidence from the ancient world. Plautus’ comedies could be our most reliable source for reconstructing the lives of slaves in ancient Rome. By reading literature alongside the historical record, we can conjure a thickly contextualized picture of slavery in the late third and early second centuries bce, the earliest period for which we have such evidence. The book discusses how slaves were captured and sold; their treatment by the master and the community; the growth of the conception of the slave as “other than human,” and as chattel; and the problem of freedom for both slaves and society.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405196289
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
This book studies a crucial phase in the history of Roman slavery, beginning with the transition to chattel slavery in the third century bce and ending with antiquity’s first large-scale slave rebellion in the 130s bce. Slavery is a relationship of power, and to study slavery – and not simply masters or slaves – we need to see the interactions of individuals who speak to each other, a rare kind of evidence from the ancient world. Plautus’ comedies could be our most reliable source for reconstructing the lives of slaves in ancient Rome. By reading literature alongside the historical record, we can conjure a thickly contextualized picture of slavery in the late third and early second centuries bce, the earliest period for which we have such evidence. The book discusses how slaves were captured and sold; their treatment by the master and the community; the growth of the conception of the slave as “other than human,” and as chattel; and the problem of freedom for both slaves and society.
Slavery in Ancient Greece
Author: Yvon Garlan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Arbitrary Rule
Author: Mary Nyquist
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022601553X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their treatment as a form of political slavery. What, if anything, does figurative, political slavery have to do with transatlantic slavery? In Arbitrary Rule, Mary Nyquist explores connections between political and chattel slavery by excavating the tradition of Western political thought that justifies actively opposing tyranny. She argues that as powerful rhetorical and conceptual constructs, Greco-Roman political liberty and slavery reemerge at the time of early modern Eurocolonial expansion; they help to create racialized “free” national identities and their “unfree” counterparts in non-European nations represented as inhabiting an earlier, privative age. Arbitrary Rule is the first book to tackle political slavery’s discursive complexity, engaging Eurocolonialism, political philosophy, and literary studies, areas of study too often kept apart. Nyquist proceeds through analyses not only of texts that are canonical in political thought—by Aristotle, Cicero, Hobbes, and Locke—but also of literary works by Euripides, Buchanan, Vondel, Montaigne, and Milton, together with a variety of colonialist and political writings, with special emphasis on tracts written during the English revolution. She illustrates how “antityranny discourse,” which originated in democratic Athens, was adopted by republican Rome, and revived in early modern Western Europe, provided members of a “free” community with a means of protesting a threatened reduction of privileges or of consolidating a collective, political identity. Its semantic complexity, however, also enabled it to legitimize racialized enslavement and imperial expansion. Throughout, Nyquist demonstrates how principles relating to political slavery and tyranny are bound up with a Roman jurisprudential doctrine that sanctions the power of life and death held by the slaveholder over slaves and, by extension, the state, its representatives, or its laws over its citizenry.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022601553X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their treatment as a form of political slavery. What, if anything, does figurative, political slavery have to do with transatlantic slavery? In Arbitrary Rule, Mary Nyquist explores connections between political and chattel slavery by excavating the tradition of Western political thought that justifies actively opposing tyranny. She argues that as powerful rhetorical and conceptual constructs, Greco-Roman political liberty and slavery reemerge at the time of early modern Eurocolonial expansion; they help to create racialized “free” national identities and their “unfree” counterparts in non-European nations represented as inhabiting an earlier, privative age. Arbitrary Rule is the first book to tackle political slavery’s discursive complexity, engaging Eurocolonialism, political philosophy, and literary studies, areas of study too often kept apart. Nyquist proceeds through analyses not only of texts that are canonical in political thought—by Aristotle, Cicero, Hobbes, and Locke—but also of literary works by Euripides, Buchanan, Vondel, Montaigne, and Milton, together with a variety of colonialist and political writings, with special emphasis on tracts written during the English revolution. She illustrates how “antityranny discourse,” which originated in democratic Athens, was adopted by republican Rome, and revived in early modern Western Europe, provided members of a “free” community with a means of protesting a threatened reduction of privileges or of consolidating a collective, political identity. Its semantic complexity, however, also enabled it to legitimize racialized enslavement and imperial expansion. Throughout, Nyquist demonstrates how principles relating to political slavery and tyranny are bound up with a Roman jurisprudential doctrine that sanctions the power of life and death held by the slaveholder over slaves and, by extension, the state, its representatives, or its laws over its citizenry.
Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia
Author: William D. Phillips
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812244915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia provides a sweeping survey of the many forms of bound labor in Iberia from ancient times to the decline of slavery in the eighteenth century.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812244915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia provides a sweeping survey of the many forms of bound labor in Iberia from ancient times to the decline of slavery in the eighteenth century.