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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1988
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 306.362; 306/.362
• Soggetto topico: Slavery; Crimes against humanity
• Altri autori: ArcherLéonie 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: 1. Slavery and other forms of unfree labour / G.E.M. de Ste. Croix -- 2. Serfdom in classical Greece / Paul A. Cartledge -- 3. Herodotus and the man-footed creature / F.D. Harvey -- 4. Greek theatre and the legitimation of slavery / David Wiles -- 5. Slavery as a punishment in Roman criminal law / Joan Burdon -- 6. Biblical laws of slavery : a comparative approach / Bernard S. Jackson -- 7. Debt bondage in Latin America / Alan Knight -- 8. Slaves and peasants in Buganda / Michael Twaddle -- 9. Perceptions from an African slaving frontier / Wendy James -- 10. Sudanese military slavery from the eighteenth to the twentieth century / Douglas H. Johnson -- 11. Mark Twain and the ideology of southern slavery / R.J. Ellis -- 12. All Americans are part African : slave influence on 'white' values / Mechal Sobel -- 13. Slave trading and the mentalities of masters and slaves in ante- bellum America / Michael Tadman -- 14. Runaway slaves in nineteenth-century Barbados / Gad Heuman -- 15. Haiti : race, slavery and independence (1804-1825) / David Nicholls -- 16. The social-psychological analysis of manumission / L. Mee-Yan Cheung-Judge -- 17. "Many clear words to say" : Afro-American, oral and feminist history / Susan Grayzel -- 18. Slavery : its special features and social role / Robin Blackburn.
• 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.: 9910957636103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History workshop series.