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Unfree labor : American slavery and Russian serfdom

Title
Unfree labor : American slavery and Russian serfdom / Peter Kolchin.
Author
Kolchin, Peter.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987.

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Description
xiv, 517 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
Summary
Kolchin compares the world of masters and the world of slaves in U.S. and Russian nonfree labor systems. He theorizes that while southern states in the U.S. existed as slaveowner's communities, the rural Russian communal landcape was severely influenced by the bargaining power of peasant bondsmen.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Cross-cultural studies
  • History
  • bibliography.
  • map.
  • bibliographie.
  • carte géographique.
  • bibliografía.
  • mapa.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 377-383.
Contents
The masters and their bondsmen -- Labor management -- Planters, Pomeshchiki, and paternalism -- Ideals and ideology -- The bondsmen and their masters -- Community and culture -- Patterns of resistance -- Protest, unity, and disunity -- Crisis of unfree labor.
ISBN
  • 067492097X
  • 9780674920972
  • 0674920988
  • 9780674920989
LCCN
86014909
OCLC
  • ocm13792003
  • 13792003
  • SCSB-5934370
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library