Slavery and other forms of unfree labour / / edited by Leonie J. Archer

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1988
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.362; 306/.362
• Soggetto topico: Slavery; Crimes against humanity
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: ArcherLeonie J
• Note generali: Papers from a workshop held in Oxford in April 1985 under the auspices of the History Workshop Centre for Social History.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography: p. [280]-297 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labour; Serfdom in Classical Greece; Herodotus and the Man-Footed Creature; Greek Theatre and the Legitimation of Slavery; Slavery as a Punishment in Roman Criminal Law; Biblical Laws of Slavery: a Comparative Approach; Debt Bondage in Latin America; Slaves and Peasants in Buganda; Perceptions from an African Slaving Frontier; Sudanese Military Slavery from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century; Mark Twain and the Ideology of Southern Slavery ; All Americans Are Part African: Slave Influence on 'White' Values Slave Trading and the Mentalities of Masters and Slaves in Ante-Bellum America; Runaway Slaves in Nineteenth-Century Barbados; Haiti: Race, Slavery and Independence (1804 1825); The Social-Psychological Analysis of Manumission; 'Many Clear Words to Say': Afro-American, Oral and Feminist History; Slavery; its Special Features and Social Role; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Bringing together normally self-contained areas of research, this book presents penetrating analyses of the nature and perpetuation of slavery through the ages.
• Titolo autorizzato: Slavery and other forms of unfree labour
• ISBN: 1-280-32354-X; 0-203-40151-4; 0-203-33181-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910455548703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History workshop series.