Critical Readings on Global Slavery

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-34654-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 1692 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 3207 g

Reihe: Critical Readings

The study of slavery has grown strongly in recent years, as scholars working in several disciplines have cultivated broader perspectives on enslavement in a wide variety of contexts and settings. Critical Readings on Global Slavery offers students and researchers a rich collection of previously published works by some of the most preeminent scholars in the field. With contributions covering various regions and time periods, this anthology encourages readers to view slave systems across time and space as both ubiquitous and interconnected, and introduces those who are interested in the study of human bondage to some of the most important and widely cited works in slavery studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pargas, Damian Alan

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Rosu, Felicia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Sklaverei
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Global Perspectives on Slavery
Damian Alan Pargas and Felicia Rosu

Definitions and Global Approaches
1 Definition and Distinction from Kindred Phenomena
H. J. Nieboer
2 The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis
Evsey D. Domar
3 The Emergence of a Slave Society
Moses I. Finley
4 Authority, Alienation, and Social Death
Orlando Patterson
5 The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold
Claude Meillassoux
6 Slavery: A Question of Definition
Suzanne Miers
7 History as a Problem of Slaving
Joseph Miller
8 Historiography and Research Problems of Slavery and the Slave Trade in a Global-Historical Perspective
Michael Zeuske

Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
9 Between Slavery and Freedom
Moses I. Finley
10 A Scientific Approach to Ancient Slavery?
Niall McKeown
11 A Life-Course Approach to Household Slaves in the Late Third Millennium BC
Laura Culbertson
12 Slavery, Freedom and Citizenship in Classical Athens: Beyond a Legalistic Approach
Kostas Vlassopoulos
13 Justifications: Barbarians and Natural Slaves
N. R. E. Fisher
14 Novel Evidence for Roman Slavery
Keith Hopkins
15 Resisting Slavery
Keith Bradley
16 Body Work: Slavery and the Pauline Churches
Jennifer A. Glancy
17 How and Why Ancient Slavery Came to an End
Marc Bloch
18 Slavery in Early China: A Socio-Cultural Approach
Robin D. S. Yates
19 Empire, Monotheism and Slavery in the Greater Mediterranean Region from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era
Jeffrey Fynn-Paul
20 Medieval Slavery in a New Geopolitical Space
Youval Rotman
21 Slavery in Late Medieval Europe
William D. Phillips
22 The Identity of the Slave in Scandinavia
Ruth Mazo Karras
23 Slavery and Cultural Antipathy
David Wyatt
24 An Explanation of Military Slavery
Daniel Pipes
25 War, Servitude, and the Imperial Household: A Study of Palace Women in the Chola Empire
Daud Ali

The Modern World: 1450–1900
26 The Geography of Slaving in the Early Modern Mediterranean, 1500–1800

Robert Davis
27 Piracy, Ransom Slavery and Trade:
French Participation in the Liberation of Ottoman Slaves from Malta during the 1620s

Pál Fodor
28 Shifting Patterns of Ottoman Enslavement in the Early Modern Period
Ehud R. Toledano
29 Ransom Slavery Along the Ottoman—Hungarian Frontier in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Géza Pálffy
30 The Black Sea and the Slave Trade: The Role of Crimean Maritime Towns in the Trade in Slaves and Captives in the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Mikhail B. Kizilov
31 The Gypsies in the Romanian Lands during the Middle Ages: Slavery
Viorel Achim
32 Serfs, Slaves, or Wage Earners? The Legal Status of Labour in Russia from a Comparative Perspective, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
Alessandro Stanziani
33 I Make Him My Dog/My Slave
Brett Rushforth
34 The Process of Enslavement and the Slave Trade
John K. Thornton
35 Europeans and the Rise and Fall of African Slavery in the Americas: An Interpretation
David Eltis
36 The Living Dead Aboard the Slave Ship at Sea
Stephanie Smallwood
37 From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland North America
Ira Berlin
38 Task and Gang Systems:
The Organization of Labor on New World Plantations Philip D. Morgan
39 Rethinking Palmares: Slave Resistance in Colonial Brazil
Stuart B. Schwartz
40 The “Second Slavery”: Bonded Labor and the Transformation of the Nineteenth-Century World Economy

Dale Tomich
41 Antislavery Debates: Tides of Historiography in Slavery and Antislavery
Seymour Drescher
42 Indian Ocean Slaves in Cape Town, 1695–1807
Nigel Worden
43 Slavery, Forced Labour and Resistance in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia
Gwyn Campbell and Edward A. Alpers
44 Carrying Away the Unfortunate from India and Southeast Asia, 1500–1800
Richard B. Allen
45 “Closed” and “Open” Slave Systems in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia
Anthony Reid
46 The Structure of Slavery in the Sulu Zone in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
James Francis Warren
47 The Rise and Fall of the Transpacific Slave Trade
Tatiana Seijas

Contemporary Slavery
48 Illicit Human Cargoes
Eric Tagliacozzo
49 Slavery and the Slave Trade as International Issues, 1890–1939
Suzanne Miers
50 Trafficked into Slavery
Joel Quirk
51 Forced Marriage: Slavery Qua Enslavement and the Civil War in Sierra Leone
Jean Allain
52 Slavery in its Contemporary Manifestations
Kevin BalesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Damian Alan Pargas (PhD 2009, Leiden University) is an associate professor of history at Leiden University. He is the author of two books and numerous articles on slave life in North America, and is the founder and chief editor of the Journal of Global Slavery.

Felicia Rosu (PhD 2009, Georgetown University) is an associate professor of history at Leiden University. Her research and publications examine the interplay of freedom and unfreedom in early modern east-central Europe and the frontier zones between Europe and the Ottoman empire.