Overview

A ground-breaking edited collection charting the rise and fall of forms of unfree labour in the ancient Mediterranean and in the modern Atlantic, employing the methodology of comparative history. The eleven chapters in the book deal with conceptual issues and different approaches to historical comparison, and include specific case-studies ranging from the ancient forms of slavery of classical Greece and of the Roman empire to the modern examples of slavery that characterised the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. The results demonstrate both how much the modern world has inherited from the ancient in regard to ideology and practice of slavery; and also how many of the issues and problems related to the latter seem to have been fundamentally similar across time and space.

ISBN-13

9780521881838

ISBN-10

0521881838

Weight

1.52 Pounds

Dimensions

6.00 x 0.88 x 9.00 In

List Price

$132.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

390 pages

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published On

2008-03-13



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