Critical readings on global slavery / edited by Damian Alan Pargas, Felicia Roşu.

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The study of slavery has grown strongly in recent years, as scholars working in several disciplines have cultivated broader perspectives on enslavement in a wide variety of contexts and settings. 'Critical Readings on Global Slavery' offers students and researchers a rich collection of previously published works by some of the most preeminent scholars in the field. With contributions covering various regions and time periods, this anthology encourages readers to view slave systems across time and space as both ubiquitous and interconnected, and introduces those who are interested in the study of human bondage to some of the most important and widely cited works in slavery studies.

Front Matter -- Copyright page / Damian Alan Pargas and Felicia Roşu -- Introduction: Global Perspectives on Slavery / Damian Alan Pargas and Felicia Roşu -- Definitions and Global Approaches / Damian Alan Pargas and Felicia Roşu -- Definition and Distinction from Kindred Phenomena / H. J. Nieboer -- The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis* / Evsey D. Domar -- The Emergence of a Slave Society / Moses I. Finley -- Authority, Alienation, and Social Death / Orlando Patterson -- The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold / Claude Meillassoux -- Slavery: A Question of Definition / Suzanne Miers -- History as a Problem of Slaving / Joseph Miller -- Historiography and Research Problems of Slavery and the Slave Trade in a Global-Historical Perspective* / Michael Zeuske -- Antiquity to the Early Modern Period / Damian Alan Pargas and Felicia Roşu -- Between Slavery and Freedom* / Moses I. Finley -- A Scientific Approach to Ancient Slavery? / Niall McKeown -- A Life-Course Approach to Household Slaves in the Late Third Millennium bc / Laura Culbertson -- Slavery, Freedom and Citizenship in Classical Athens: Beyond a Legalistic Approach / Kostas Vlassopoulos -- Justifications: Barbarians and Natural Slaves / N. R. E. Fisher -- Novel Evidence for Roman Slavery* / Keith Hopkins -- Resisting Slavery / Keith Bradley -- Body Work: Slavery and the Pauline Churches / Jennifer A. Glancy -- How and Why Ancient Slavery Came to an End* / Marc Bloch -- Slavery in Early China: A Socio-Cultural Approach / Robin D. S. Yates -- Empire, Monotheism and Slavery in the Greater Mediterranean Region from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era* / Jeffrey Fynn-Paul -- Medieval Slavery in a New Geopolitical Space / Youval Rotman -- Slavery in Late Medieval Europe / William D. Phillips -- The Identity of the Slave in Scandinavia / Ruth Mazo Karras -- Slavery and Cultural Antipathy / David Wyatt -- An Explanation of Military Slavery / Daniel Pipes -- War, Servitude, and the Imperial Household: A Study of Palace Women in the Chola Empire* / Daud Ali -- The Modern World: 1450-1900 / Damian Alan Pargas and Felicia Roşu -- The Geography of Slaving in the Early Modern Mediterranean, 1500-1800 / Robert Davis -- Piracy, Ransom Slavery and Trade: French Participation in the Liberation of Ottoman Slaves from Malta during the 1620s / Pál Fodor -- Shifting Patterns of Ottoman Enslavement in the Early Modern Period1 / Ehud R. Toledano -- Ransom Slavery along the Ottoman-Hungarian Frontier in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Géza Pálffy -- The Black Sea and the Slave Trade: The Role of Crimean Maritime Towns in the Trade in Slaves and Captives in the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries1 / Mikhail B. Kizilov -- The Gypsies in the Romanian Lands during the Middle Ages: Slavery / Viorel Achim -- Serfs, Slaves, or Wage Earners? The Legal Status of Labour in Russia from a Comparative Perspective, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century* / Alessandro Stanziani -- I Make Him My Dog/My Slave / Brett Rushforth -- The Process of Enslavement and the Slave Trade / John K. Thornton -- Europeans and the Rise and Fall of African Slavery in the Americas: An Interpretation* / David Eltis.

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