Slavery in the late Roman world, AD 275-425 / / Kyle Harper [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457181903321
• Autore: Harper Kyle <1979->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-107-22378-4; 1-139-13989-4; 1-283-31657-9; 9786613316578; 1-139-13913-4; 1-139-14491-X; 1-139-14071-X; 1-139-13758-1; 0-511-97345-4; 1-139-14159-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 611 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 306.3/620937
• Soggetti: Slavery - Rome; Social structure - Rome; Rome Social conditions; Rome Economic conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I. The Economy of Slavery: Introduction -- ; 1. Among slave systems: a profile of late Roman slavery -- ; 2. The endless river: the supply and trade of slaves -- ; 3. Oikonomia: households, consumption, and production -- ; 4. Agricultural slavery: exchange, institutions, estates -- ; Part II. The Making of Honorable Society: Introduction -- ; 5. Semper timere: the aims and techniques of domination -- ; 6. Self, family, and community among slaves -- ; 7. Sex, status, and social reproduction -- ; 8. Mastery and the making of honor -- ; Part III. The Imperial Order: Introduction -- ; 9. Citizenship and litigation: slave status after the Antonine constitution -- ; 10. The ; enslavement of Mediterranean bodies: child exposure and child sale -- ; 11. The community of honor: the state and sexuality -- ; 12. Rites of manumission, rights of the freed -- After the fall: Roman slavery and the end of antiquity -- ; Appendices.
• Sommario/riassunto: Capitalizing on the rich historical record of late antiquity, and employing sophisticated methodologies from social and economic history, this book reinterprets the end of Roman slavery. Kyle Harper challenges traditional interpretations of a transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages, arguing instead that a deep divide runs through 'late antiquity', separating the Roman slave system from its early medieval successors. In the process, he covers the economic, social and institutional dimensions of ancient slavery and presents the most comprehensive analytical treatment of a pre-modern slave system now available. By scouring the late antique record, he has uncovered a wealth of new material, providing fresh insights into the ancient slave system, including slavery's role in agriculture and textile production, its relation to sexual exploitation, and the dynamics of social honor. By demonstrating the vitality of slavery into the later Roman empire, the author shows that Christianity triumphed amidst a genuine slave society.

Alfred Kazin [[electronic resource] ] : a biography / / Richard M. Cook

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455162503321
• Autore: Cook Richard M. <1941->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2007
• ISBN: 1-282-08856-4; 9786612088568; 0-300-14504-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (463 p.)
• Disciplina: 809; B
• Soggetti: American literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc; Criticism - United States - History - 20th century; Critics - United States; Electronic books.; United States Intellectual life 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [413]-439) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Brownsville -- CHAPTER TWO. The Thirties: Starting Out -- CHAPTER THREE. The Thirties: On Native Grounds -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Break 1942-1945 -- CHAPTER FIVE. After the Apocalypse 1945-1950 -- CHAPTER SIX. A Walker in the City -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Living in the Fifties 1951-1958 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Writer in the World: Part 1 1958-1963 -- CHAPTER NINE. The Writer in the World: Part 2 1963-1970 -- CHAPTER TEN. New York Jew 1970-1978 -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. A New Life 1978-1984 -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Politics -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. ''The End of Things'' 1984-1998 -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Born in 1915 to barely literate Jewish immigrants in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Alfred Kazin rose from near poverty to become a dominant figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and one of America's last great men of letters. Biographer Richard M. Cook provides a portrait of Kazin in his public roles and in his frequently unhappy private life. Drawing on the personal journals Kazin kept for ; over 60 years, private correspondence, and numerous conversations with Kazin, he uncovers the full story of the lonely, stuttering boy from Jewish Brownsville who became a pioneering critic and influential cultural commentator. Upon the appearance of On Native Grounds in 1942, Kazin was dubbed "the boy wonder of American criticism." Numerous publications followed, including A Walker in the City and two other memoirs, books of criticism, as well as a stream of essays and reviews that ceased only with his death in 1998. Cook tells of Kazin's childhood, his troubled marriages, and his relations with such figures as Lionel Trilling, Saul Bellow, Malcolm Cowley, Arthur Schlesinger, Hannah Arendt, and Daniel Bell. He illuminates Kazin's thinking on political-cultural issues and the recurring way in which his subject's personal life shaped his career as a public intellectual. Particular attention is paid to Kazin's sense of himself as a Jewish-American "loner" whose inner estrangements gave him insight into the divisions at the heart of modern culture.