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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.

Lenski, Noel Emmanuel, 1965- editor, contributor.; Cameron, Catherine M., editor, contributor.
2018
HT861 .W4385 2018eb
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Title
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.
ISBN
9781108633208 (electronic book)
110863320X (electronic book)
9781316534908
1316534901
1107144892
9781107144897
9781316508039
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 508 pages) : illustrations
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HT861 .W4385 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.3/62
Summary
"The practice of slavery has been common across a variety of cultures around the globe and throughout history. Despite the multiplicity of slavery's manifestations, many scholars have used a simple binary to categorize slave-holding groups as either 'genuine slave societies' or 'societies with slaves'. This dichotomy, as originally proposed by ancient historian Moses Finley, assumes that there were just five 'genuine slave societies' in all of human history: ancient Greece and Rome, and the colonial Caribbean, Brazil, and the American South. This book interrogates this bedrock of comparative slave studies and tests its worth. Assembling contributions from top specialists, it demonstrates that the catalogue of five must be expanded and that the model may need to be replaced with a more flexible system that emphasizes the notion of intensification. The issue is approached as a question, allowing for debate between the seventeen contributors about how best to conceptualize the comparative study of human bondage." -- Publisher's description
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Lenski, Noel Emmanuel, 1965- editor, contributor.
Cameron, Catherine M., editor, contributor.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Slavery and society in global perspective / Noel Lenski and Catherine M. Cameron
Framing the question: What is a slave society? / Noel Lenski
Part I Ancient and Late Antique Western societies. Ancient Greece as a "slave society" / Peter Hunt ; Roman slavery and the idea of "slave society" / Kyle Harper and Walter Scheidel ; Ancient slaveries and modern ideology / Noel Lenski
Part II Non-Western small-scale societies. The nature of slavery in small-scale societies / Catherine M. Cameron ; Native American slavery in global context / Christina Snyder ; Slavery as structure, process, or lived experience, or why slave societies existed in precontact tropical America / Fernando Santos-Granero ; Slavery in societies on the frontiers of centralized states in West Africa / Paul E. Lovejoy
Part III Modern Western societies. The colonial Brazilian "slave society": Potentialities, limits, and challenges to an interpretative model inspired by Moses Finley / Aldair Carlos Rodrigues ; What is a slave society?: The American South / Robert Gudmestad ; Islands of slavery: Archaeology and Caribbean landscapes of intensification / Theresa Singleton
Part IV Non-Western state societies. Was nineteenth-century eastern Arabia a "slave society"? / Matthew S. Hopper ; Slavery and society in east Africa, Oman, and the Persian Gulf / Bernard K. Freamon ; Ottoman and Islamic societies: Were they "slave societies"? / Ehud R. Toledano ; A microhistorical analysis of korean Nobis through the prism of the lawsuit of Damulsari / Kim Bok-rae ; "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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