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almafu_9960118804902883
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1 online resource (xvii, 508 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-108-60740-3
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1-316-53490-1
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1-108-63320-X
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The practice of slavery has been common across a variety of cultures around the globe and throughout history. Despite the multiplicity of slavery's manifestations, many scholars have used a simple binary to categorize slave-holding groups as either 'genuine slave societies' or 'societies with slaves'. This dichotomy, as originally proposed by ancient historian Moses Finley, assumes that there were just five 'genuine slave societies' in all of human history: ancient Greece and Rome, and the colonial Caribbean, Brazil, and the American South. This book interrogates this bedrock of comparative slave studies and tests its worth. Assembling contributions from top specialists, it demonstrates that the catalogue of five must be expanded and that the model may need to be replaced with a more flexible system that emphasizes the notion of intensification. The issue is approached as a question, allowing for debate between the seventeen contributors about how best to conceptualize the comparative study of human bondage.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables and Charts -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Slavery and Society in Global Perspective -- 1 Framing the Question: What Is a Slave Society? -- Genesis of the Idea of a "Slave Society" -- The Impact of the Model -- Ethnocentrism -- Fourth- to Second- Century BCE Carthage -- Sarmatians of the Second through Fourth Centuries CE -- Northwest Coast Indians of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries CE -- Sokoto Caliphate of the Nineteenth Century -- Dahomey of the Nineteenth Century -- Categorical Imprecision -- A New Model -- Part I Ancient and Late Antique Western Societies -- 2 Ancient Greece as a "Slave Society" -- Introduction: Weak and Strong Concepts of "Slave Societies" -- The Heterogeneity of Classical Greek Society -- Athens as a "Slave Society" -- Were the Helots Slaves? -- Conclusion -- 3 Roman Slavery and the Idea of "Slave Society" -- Slave Society: A Useful Category of Analysis? -- Before the Idea of "Slave Society" -- Looking for Roman Slavery -- Conclusion -- 4 Ancient Slaveries and Modern Ideology -- An Archaeology of Finley's Theory 1: The Background -- An Archaeology of Finley's Theory 2: Developing the Model -- The Model and Its Context -- Finley and the Greeks -- Rome and the US South: Does Finley's Model Help? -- Conclusion -- Part II Non-Western Small-Scale Societies -- 5 The Nature of Slavery in Small-Scale Societies -- Who Was a Slave? -- Numbers -- Warfare, Captive-Taking, and the Creation of Status -- The Slave Economy in Small-Scale Societies -- Conclusions -- 6 Native American Slavery in Global Context -- Indigenous Slaving Practices -- Emancipation -- Comparative and Global Perspectives -- Conclusion.
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7 Slavery as Structure, Process, or Lived Experience, or Why Slave Societies Existed in Precontact Tropical America -- Slavery as Structure: The Economic Perspective -- Slavery as Process: The Historical Perspective -- Slavery as Lived Experience: The Phenomenological Perspective -- Discussion -- 8 Slavery in Societies on the Frontiers of Centralized States in West Africa -- Slavery as a Mode of Production -- The Bight of Biafra Hinterland -- Slavery on the Frontiers of the Jihad States -- Conclusion -- Part III Modern Western Societies -- 9 The Colonial Brazilian "Slave Society" -- Slaveholding Patterns and "Slave Society" -- Challenges to Finley's Perspective: São Paulo, the Amazon, and Indigenous Labor -- An Alternative Model for the Social Formation of Colonial Brazil -- Agency and African Diaspora -- Conclusions -- 10 What Is a Slave Society? -- 11 Islands of Slavery -- Introduction -- Archaeology of Caribbean Slavery -- Origins of Caribbean Slavery, 1500-1650 -- The Sugar Revolution and the Intensification of African Slavery, 1650-1800 -- Second Slavery in the Caribbean, 1801-1886 -- Conclusion: Finley's or Goveia's "Slave Society" -- Part IV Non-Western State Societies -- 12 Was Nineteenth-Century Eastern Arabia a "Slave Society"? -- Background -- Economic Conditions -- Social Conditions -- Conclusions -- 13 Slavery and Society in East Africa, Oman, and the Persian Gulf -- Introduction: The Emergence of a Transoceanic, Transcontinental "Slave Society" -- Transformations in Slavery in Africa and the Indian Ocean Littoral -- The Historiography of East African and Indian Ocean Slavery and Its Evolution -- Slavery and Society in East Africa, Oman, and the Persian Gulf -- 14 Ottoman and Islamic Societies -- Introduction -- Antislavery Islamic Societies of the Middle East: History and Discourse -- Conclusion.
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15 A Microhistorical Analysis of Korean Nobis through the Prism of the Lawsuit of Damulsari -- Introduction -- The Social and Legal Disadvantage of the Nobi -- The Matrilineal Succession Law of the Lowborn Class -- The Lawsuit of Damulsari -- The Case of Yi Ji-do -- The Case of Damulsari -- Nobis in a Broader Perspective -- Half-Slave/Half-Serf -- Tribute-Paying Nobis -- Conclusion -- 16 "Slavery so Gentle": A Fluid Spectrum of Southeast Asian Conditions of Bondage -- Pattern of Debt and Obligation -- Incorporation of Labor into Expanding Cities -- Slave Trade -- Legalism and the Rise of the "Outsider" Slave -- Were There "Slave Societies" in This Spectrum? -- Conclusion: Intersections: Slaveries, Borderlands, Edges -- Volume Bibliography -- Index.
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ISBN 1-107-14489-2
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English
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