1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002580469707536

Titolo

Meetings of cultures in the Black Sea Region : between conflict and coexistence / ed. by Pia Guldager Bilde and Jane Hjarl Petersen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, 2008

ISBN

9788779344198

Descrizione fisica

422 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Collana

Black Sea studies ; 8

Altri autori (Persone)

Bilde, Pia Guldager

Petersen, Jane Hjarl

Altri autori (Enti)

Center for sortehavsstudier (Denmark)

Soggetti

Etnologia - Mar Nero - Congresso

Mar Nero Civiltà Congresso

Mar Nero Antichità Congresso

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Contiene bibliografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910817298403321

Autore

Davis David Brion

Titolo

From homicide to slavery : studies in American culture / / David Brion Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Oxford University Press, , 1986

©1986

ISBN

1-280-52345-X

9786610523450

0-19-802112-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 p.)

Disciplina

305.8/96073/073

Soggetti

Slavery - United States

Violence - United States - History

Slavery - United States - Historiography

National characteristics, American

United States Race relations

West (U.S.) Civilization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; I. VIOLENCE AND VIRILITY IN AMERICAN CULTURE; 1. Murder in New Hampshire; 2. The Movement To Abolish Capital Punishment in America, 1787-1861; 3. Violence in American Literature; 4. Stress-Seeking and the Self-Made Man in American Literature, 1894-1914; II. THE REDEEMING WEST; 5. Ten-Gallon Hero; 6. The Deerslayer, A Democratic Knight of the Wilderness: Cooper, 1841; 7. Marlboro Country; 8. Secrets of the Mormons; III. PROBLEMS OF LOYALTY AND IDENTITY; 9. Patricide and Regicide

10. Some Themes of Counter-Subversion: An Analysis of Anti-Masonic, Anti-Catholic, and Anti-Mormon Literature11. Some Ideological Functions of Prejudice in Ante-Bellum America; 12. The American Family and Boundaries in Historical Perspective; IV. STUDIES IN SLAVERY AND ANTISLAVERY; 13. Slavery, and the Post-World War II Historians; 14. Of Human Bondage; 15. Out of the Shadows; 16. New Sidelights on



Early Antislavery Radicalism; 17. The Emergence of Immediatism in British and American Antislavery Thought; 18. James Cropper and the British Anti-Slavery Movement

19. American Slavery and the American Revolution

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of the author's selected essays reflect his wide-ranging interests in American colonial history, Afro-American history, the social sciences and American literature. Amongst his topics are capital punishment, the American anti-slavery movement and the cowboy as American hero.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910810234403321

Autore

Urbainczyk Theresa <1960-, >

Titolo

Slave revolts in antiquity / / Theresa Urbainczyk

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-315-47880-3

1-315-47881-1

1-315-47879-X

1-282-94720-6

9786612947209

1-84465-395-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 177 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

306.362

Soggetti

Slave rebellions - Greece

Slave rebellions - Rome

Slavery - Greece

Slavery - Rome

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 2008 by Acumen.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-172) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The significance of slave revolts-- 2. Preparing for revolt-- 3. Maintaining resistance-- 4. The role of the leader-- 5. Ideology of the slaves-- 6. Sympathy for the slaves: Diodorus Siculus-- 7. The secret of the success of the Spartan helots-- 8. Slave revolts in the ancient



historiography.

Sommario/riassunto

Although much has been written on Greek and Roman slavery, slave resistance has typically been dismissed as historically insignificant and those revolts that are documented are portrayed as wholly exceptional and resulting from peculiar historical circumstances that had little to do with the intrinsic views or organizational capabilities of the slaves themselves. In this book Theresa Urbainczyk challenges the current orthodoxy and argues that there were many more slave revolts than is usually assumed and they were far from insignificant historically. She carefully dissects ancient and modern interpretations to show that there was every reason for the writers who recorded and re-recorded the slave rebellions and wars to repress or to reconfigure any larger-scale slave resistance as something other than what it was. Further, she shows that we often have the accounts that we do because of the happenstance of certain ancient authors having been particularly interested in creating accounts of them for their own interests. Urbainczyk argues that we need to look beyond the canonical sources and episodes to see a bigger history of long-term resistance of slaves to their enslavement.