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Author: Jane L. Rowlandson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-03-31
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 1107032970
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Translated ancient sources from over 3000 years of Egyptian history reveal the complex story of slavery in the Nile valley.
Author: Jane L. Rowlandson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-03-21
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 1009488287
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Aimed at students, instructors and general readers interested in the experiences of enslaved persons in ancient Egypt, from the Old Kingdom to the early Islamic period. Provides nearly three hundred primary sources in translation, arranged both chronologically and thematically and accompanied by contextualising introductions.
Author: Elke Brüggen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2024-05-20
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 311138182X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Given that strong asymmetrical dependencies have shaped human societies throughout history, this kind of social relation has also left its traces in many types of texts. Using written and oral narratives in attempts to reconstruct the history of asymmetrical dependency comes along with various methodological challenges, as the 15 articles in this interdisciplinary volume illustrate. They focus on a wide range of different (factual and fictional) text types, including inscriptions from Egyptian tombs, biblical stories, novels from antiquity, the Middle High German Rolandslied, Ottoman court records, captivity narratives, travelogues, the American gift book The Liberty Bell, and oral narratives by Caribbean Hindu women. Most of the texts discussed in this volume have so far received comparatively little attention in slavery and dependency studies. The volume thus also seeks to broaden the archive of texts that are deemed relevant in research on the histories of asymmetrical dependencies, bringing together perspectives from disciplines such as Egyptology, theology, literary studies, history, and anthropology
Author: Jacqueline Dembar Greene
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9780531116920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Follows the course of slavery in Mesopotamia and Egypt, examining how this practice began and spread, the work slaves did, and the impact of slavery on ancient societies.
Author: Christoph Witzenrath
Publisher:
Published: 2024-08-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783111520964
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The monograph realigns political culture and countermeasures against slave raids, which increased during the breakup of the Golden Horde. By physical defense of the open steppe border and by embracing the New Israel symbolism in which the exodus from slavery in Egypt prefigures the exodus of Russian captives from Tatar captivity, Muscovites found a defensive model to expand empire. Recent scholarly debates on slaving are innovatively applied to Russian and imperial history, challenging entrenched perceptions of Muscovy.
Author: Paulin Ismard
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0674660072
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Challenging the modern belief that democracy and bondage are incompatible, Paulin Ismard directs our attention to ancient Athens, where the functioning of civic government depended on skilled, knowledgeable experts who were literally public servants—slaves owned by the city-state rather than by private citizens.
Author: Sven Beckert
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2015-11-10
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 0375713964
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE • A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. “Masterly … An astonishing achievement.” —The New York Times The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today. In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world’s most significant manufacturing industry, combining imperial expansion and slave labor with new machines and wage workers to make and remake global capitalism.
Author: David Eltis
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages:
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Most societies in the past have had slaves, and almost all peoples have at some time in their pasts been both slaves as well as owners of slaves. Recent decades have seen a significant increase in our understanding of the historical role played by slavery and wide interest across a range of academic disciplines in the evolution of the institution. Exciting and innovative research methodologies have been developed, and numerous fruitful debates generated. Further, the study of slavery has come to provide strong connections between academic research and the wider public interest at a time when such links have in general been weak. The Cambridge World History of Slavery responds to these trends by providing for the first time, in four volumes, a comprehensive global history of this widespread phenomenon from the ancient world to the present day. Volume I surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. These are often considered as the first examples in world history of genuine slave societies because of the widespread prevalence of chattel slavery, which is argued to have been a cultural manifestation of the ubiquitous violence in societies typified by incessant warfare"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Sara Forsdyke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-10
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 1107032342
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Recovers the voices, experiences and agency of enslaved people in ancient Greece.
Author: ابن الساعي، علي بن انجب،
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 1479866792
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume is one of the few surviving texts by Ibn al-Saʿi (d. 674 H/1276 AD). Ibn al-Saʿi was a prolific Baghdadi scholar who chronicled the academic and political elites of his city, and whose career straddled the final years of the Abbasid dynasty and the period following the cataclysmic Mongol invasion of 656 H/1258 AD.
