The politics of slavery / / Laura Brace [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Brace Laura
• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (v, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 320.086/25
• Soggetto topico: Slavery - Political aspects
• Classificazione: MD 3000
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Nov 2020).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-240) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Shining a Light on Slavery? -- 2 Aristotle and the Strangeness of Slaves -- 3 Locke and Hutcheson: Indians, Vagabonds and Drones -- 4 Empires of Property, Properties of Empire -- 5 Humanity, Hegel and Freedom -- 6 Unparalleled Drudgery and the Deprivation of Freedom -- 7 The Subjection of Women: Loopholes of Retreat? -- 8 Incarceration and Rupture: The Past in the Present -- 9 Trafficking and Slavery: A Place of No Return -- 10 Glimpses of Slavery -- References -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Looking at scholarship on both 'old' and 'new' slavery, Laura Brace assesses the work of Aristotle, Locke, Hegel, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Mill, and explores the contemporary concerns of human trafficking and the prison industrial complex to consider the limitations of 'new slavery' discourse.
• Titolo autorizzato: The politics of slavery
• ISBN: 1-4744-4512-8; 1-4744-0115-5; 1-4744-0493-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996465257203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno