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Title

The Cambridge world history of slavery / David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, general editors.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011-2021.

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Additional Authors

• Eltis, David, 1940-
• Engerman, Stanley L.
• Bradley, K. R. (Keith R.), 1946-
• Cartledge, Paul
• Perry, Craig, 1978-
• Richardson, David, 1946-
• Drescher, Seymour

Description

4 volumes : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"Most societies in the past have had slaves, and almost all peoples have at some time in their pasts been both slaves as well as owners of slaves. Recent decades have seen a significant increase in our understanding of the historical role played by slavery and wide interest across a range of academic disciplines in the evolution of the institution. Exciting and innovative research methodologies have been developed, and numerous fruitful debates generated. Further, the study of slavery has come to provide strong connections between academic research and the wider public interest at a time when such links have in general been weak. The Cambridge World History of Slavery responds to these trends by providing for the first time, in four volumes, a comprehensive global history of this widespread phenomenon from the ancient world to the present day. Volume I surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. These are often considered as the first examples in world history of genuine slave societies because of the widespread prevalence of chattel slavery, which is argued to have been a cultural manifestation of the ubiquitous violence in societies typified by incessant warfare"--Provided by publisher.

Subjects

• History
• Slavery > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

• English.

Contents

• V. 1. The ancient Mediterranean world / edited by Keith Bradley and Paul Cartledge -- v. 2. AD 500-AD 1420 / edited by Craig Perry, David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, and David Richardson -- v. 3. AD 1420-AD 1804 / edited by David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman -- v. 4. AD 1804-AD 2016 / edited by David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Seymour Drescher, and David Richardson.
• Volume 1. Slavery in the ancient Near East / Daniel C. Snell -- Slaves in Greek literary culture / Peter Hunt -- Classical Athens / T.E. Rihll -- The Helots: a contemporary review / Paul Cartledge -- Slavery and economy in the Greek world / Dimitris J. Kyrtatas -- The slave supply in classical Greece / David Braund -- Slavery and the Greek family / Mark Golden -- Resistance among chattel slaves in the classical Greek world / Niall McKeown -- Archaeology and Greek slavery / Ian Morris -- Slavery in the Hellenistic world / Dorothy J. Thompson -- Slavery and Roman literary culture / Sandra R. Joshel -- Slavery in the Roman Republic / Keith Bradley -- Slavery under the Principate / Neville Morley -- The Roman slave supply / Walter Scheidel -- Slave labour and Roman society / John Bodel -- Slavery and the Roman family / Jonathan Edmondson -- Resisting slavery at Rome / Keith Bradley -- Slavery and Roman material culture / Michele George -- Slavery and Roman law / Jane F. Gardner -- Slavery and the Jews / Catherine Hezser -- Slavery and the rise of Christianity / Jennifer Glancy -- Slavery in the late Roman world / Cam Grey.
• Volume 2. Slavery in the medieval millennium / Craig Perry, David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, and David Richardson -- The greater Mediterranean slave trade / Jeff Fynn-Paul -- Captivity, ransom, and manumission, 500-1420 / Hussein Fancy -- Forced migrations and slavery in the Mongol Empire (1206-1368) / Michal Biran -- The trade in slaves in the Black Sea, Russia, and eastern Europe / Hannah Barker -- Slavery and the slave trade in the western Indian Ocean world / Craig Perry -- Child enslavement in late antiquity and the Middle Ages / Judith Evans Grubbs -- Intersections of gender, sex, and slavery: female sexual slavery / Shaun Marmon -- Attitudes toward blackness / Steven A. Epstein -- Slavery and agency in the Middle Ages / Craig Perry -- Slavery in medieval China / Don J. Wyatt -- Slavery in medieval Korea / Seung B. Kye -- Slavery and dependency in medieval south India / Leslie C. Orr -- Slavery in the Islamic Middle East (c. 600-1000 CE) / Matthew S. Gordon -- Military slavery in medieval north India / Ali Anooshahr -- Slavery in the Mamluk sultanate / Stephan Conermann -- Slavery in the early modern Ottoman Empire / Nur Sobers-Khan -- Slavery in the Carolingian empire / Alice Rio -- Slavery in the Byzantine Empire / Noel Lenski -- Slavery in northern Europe (Scandinavia and Iceland) and the British Isles, 500-1420 / David Wyatt -- Slavery in medieval Iberia / Debra Blumenthal -- Slavery in Africa, c. 500-1500 CE: archaeological and historical perspectives / Paul J. Lane -- Slavery in precontact America / Camilla Townsend.
• Volume 3. Dependence, servility, and coerced labor in time and space / David Eltis and Stanley L. Engerman -- Enslavement in the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period / Ehud R. Toledano -- Slavery in Islamic Africa, 1400-1800 / Rudolph T. Ware III -- Slavery in non-Islamic West Africa, 1420-1820 / G. Ugo Nwokeji -- Slaving and resistance to slaving in West Central Africa / Roquinaldo Ferreira -- White servitude / William G. Clarence-Smith and David Eltis -- Slavery in Southeast Asia, 1420-1804 / Kerry Ward -- Slavery in early modern China / Pamela Kyle Crossley -- Slavery in indigenous North America / Leland Donald -- Indigenous slavery in South America, 1492-1820 / Neil L. Whitehead -- Russian slavery and serfdom, 1450-1804 / Richard Hellie -- Manorialism and rural subjection in east central Europe, 1500-1800 / Edgar Melton -- Slavery in the Atlantic islands and the early modern Spanish Atlantic world / William D. Phillips, Jr. -- Slavery and politics in colonial Portuguese America: the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries / João Fragoso and Ana Rios -- Slavery in the British Caribbean / Philip D. Morgan -- Slavery in the North American mainland colonies / Lorena S. Walsh -- Slavery in the French Caribbean, 1635-1804 / Laurent Dubois -- Slavery and the slave trade of the minor Atlantic powers / Pieter Emmer -- Demography and family structures / B.W. Higman -- The concept of creolization / Richard Price -- Black women in the early Americas / Betty Wood -- Involuntary migration in the early modern world, 1500-1800 / David Richardson -- Slavery, freedom, and the law in the Atlantic world, 1420-1807 / Sue Peabody -- European forced labor in the early modern era / Timothy Coates -- Transatlantic slavery and economic development in the Atlantic world: West Africa, 1450-1850 / Joseph E. Inikori -- Slave worker rebellions and revolutions in the Americas to 1804 / Mary Turner -- Runaways and quilombolas in the Americas / Manolo Florentino and Márcia Amantino.
• Volume 4. Introduction / David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Seymour Drescher, and David Richardson -- Demographic trends / B.W. Higman -- Overseas movements of slaves and indentured workers / David Northrup -- The non-Hispanic West Indies / Pieter C. Emmer and Stanley L. Engerman -- Slavery in Cuba and Puerto Rico, 1804 to abolition / Laird W. Bergad -- Slavery in nineteenth-century Brazil / João José Reis -- US slavery and its aftermath, 1804-2000 / Stanley L. Engerman -- Slavery in Africa, 1804-1936 / Gareth Austin -- Ottoman slavery and abolition in the nineteenth century / Michael Ferguson and Ehud R. Toledano -- Slavery and bondage in the Indian Ocean world, nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Gwyn Campbell and Alessandro Stanziani -- Slavery in India / Alessandro Stanziani -- Slave resistance / Robert L. Paquette -- Black cultural production in the nineteenth century / Alex Borucki and Jessica Millward -- Slavery and the Haitian Revolution / David Geggus -- Slavery and abolition in Islamic Africa, 1776-1905 / Rudolph T. Ware III -- European antislavery: from empires of slavery to global prohibition / Seymour Drescher -- Antislavery and abolitionism in the United States, 1776-1870 / James Brewer Stewart -- The emancipation of the serfs in Europe / Shane O'Rourke -- British abolitionism from the vantage of pre-colonial South Asian regimes / Indrani Chatterjee -- The transition from slavery to freedom in the Americas after 1804 / Christopher Schmidt-Nowara -- Abolition and its aftermath in Brazil / Celso Thomas Castilho -- The American Civil War and its aftermath / Peter A. Coclanis -- Dependency and coercion in East Asian labor, 1800-1949 / Pamela Crossley -- Gender and coerced labor / Pamela Scully and Kerry Ward -- Coerced labor in twentieth-century Africa / Richard Roberts -- Indenture in the long nineteenth century / Rosemarijn Hoefte -- Forced labor in Nazi Germany and the Stalinist Soviet Union / Alan Barenberg -- Contemporary coercive labor practices: slavery today / Kevin Bales.

Call Number

JX 21-11863

ISBN

• 9780521840668
• 052184066X
• 9780521840675
• 0521840678
• 9780521840682
• 0521840686
• 9780521840699
• 0521840694

LCCN

2009036356

OCLC

320803187

Title

The Cambridge world history of slavery / David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, general editors.

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011-2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language

English.

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Added Author

Eltis, David, 1940- editor.

Engerman, Stanley L., editor.

Bradley, K. R. (Keith R.), 1946- editor.

Cartledge, Paul, editor.

Perry, Craig, 1978- editor.

Richardson, David, 1946- editor.

Drescher, Seymour, editor.

Other Form:

052184066X

Research Call Number

JX 21-11863