Format:
xxxiii, 511 Seiten
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Diagramme, Karten
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24 cm
Edition:
First Harvard University Press paperback edition - with a new preface
ISBN:
9780674986909
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0674986903
Content:
In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. Slavery is shown to be a parasitic relationship between master and slave, invariably entailing the violent domination of a natally alienated, or socially dead, person. The phenomenon of slavery as an institution, the author argues, is a single process of recruitment, incorporation on the margin of society, and eventual manumission or death. --from publisher description
Content:
The internal relations of slavery. The idiom of power -- Authority, alienation, and social death -- Honor and degradation -- Slavery as an institutional process. Enslavement of "free" persons -- Enslavement by birth -- The acquisition of slaves -- The condition of slavery -- Manumission : its meaning and modes -- The status of freed persons -- Patterns of manumission -- The dialectics of slavery. The ultimate slave -- Slavery as human parasitism
Note:
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674810822
Language:
English
Keywords:
Sklaverei
;
Sklavenhalter
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