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What is a slave society? : the practice of slavery in global perspective / edited by Noel Lenski (Yale University), Catherine M. Cameron (University of Colorado, Boulder) ; with the assistance of Joshua Fincher.

Contributor(s): Publisher: Copyright date: ©2018Description: xvii, 508 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781316508039
  • 9781107144897
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 306.3/62 23 W555
LOC classification:
  • HT861 .W43 2018
Contents:
1. Framing the question: what is a Slave Society? / Noel Lenski ; Part I. Ancient and Late Antique Western Societies. 2. Ancient Greece as a 'Slave Society' / Peter Hunt ; 3. Roman slavery and the idea of 'Slave Society' / Kyle Harper and Walter Scheidel ; 4. Ancient slaveries and modern ideology / Noel Lenski ; Part II. Non-Western Small-Scale Societies. 5. The nature of slavery in small-scale societies / Catherine Cameron ; 6. Native American slavery in global context / Christina Snyder ; 7. Slavery as structure, process, or lived experience, or why slave societies existed in pre-contact tropical America / Fernando Santos-Granero ; 8. Slavery in societies on the frontiers of centralized states in West Africa / Paul Lovejoy ; Part III. Modern Western Societies. 9. The colonial Brazilian 'Slave Society': potentialities, limits and challenges to an interpretative model inspired by Moses Finley / Aldair Carlos Rodrigues ; 10. What is a Slave Society? The American South / Robert Gudmestad ; 11. Islands of slavery: archaeology and Caribbean landscapes of intensification / Theresa Singleton ; Part IV. Non-Western State Societies. 12. Was nineteenth-century Eastern Arabia a 'Slave Society'? / Matthew Hopper ; 13. Slavery and society in East Africa, Oman, and the Persian Gulf / Bernard K. Freamon ; 14. Ottoman and Islamic societies: were they 'Slave Societies'? / Ehud Toledano ; 15. A microhistorical analysis of Korean Nobis through the prism of the lawsuit of Damulsari / Kim Bok-rae ; 16. 'Slavery so Gentle': a fluid spectrum of Southeast Asian conditions of bondage / Anthony Reid ; Conclusion. Intersections: slaveries, borderlands, edges / James F. Brooks.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-499) and index.

1. Framing the question: what is a Slave Society? / Noel Lenski ; Part I. Ancient and Late Antique Western Societies. 2. Ancient Greece as a 'Slave Society' / Peter Hunt ; 3. Roman slavery and the idea of 'Slave Society' / Kyle Harper and Walter Scheidel ; 4. Ancient slaveries and modern ideology / Noel Lenski ; Part II. Non-Western Small-Scale Societies. 5. The nature of slavery in small-scale societies / Catherine Cameron ; 6. Native American slavery in global context / Christina Snyder ; 7. Slavery as structure, process, or lived experience, or why slave societies existed in pre-contact tropical America / Fernando Santos-Granero ; 8. Slavery in societies on the frontiers of centralized states in West Africa / Paul Lovejoy ; Part III. Modern Western Societies. 9. The colonial Brazilian 'Slave Society': potentialities, limits and challenges to an interpretative model inspired by Moses Finley / Aldair Carlos Rodrigues ; 10. What is a Slave Society? The American South / Robert Gudmestad ; 11. Islands of slavery: archaeology and Caribbean landscapes of intensification / Theresa Singleton ; Part IV. Non-Western State Societies. 12. Was nineteenth-century Eastern Arabia a 'Slave Society'? / Matthew Hopper ; 13. Slavery and society in East Africa, Oman, and the Persian Gulf / Bernard K. Freamon ; 14. Ottoman and Islamic societies: were they 'Slave Societies'? / Ehud Toledano ; 15. A microhistorical analysis of Korean Nobis through the prism of the lawsuit of Damulsari / Kim Bok-rae ; 16. 'Slavery so Gentle': a fluid spectrum of Southeast Asian conditions of bondage / Anthony Reid ; Conclusion. Intersections: slaveries, borderlands, edges / James F. Brooks.