A Historical Guide to World Slavery

ISBN-13: 9780195120912 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 456 str.

Seymour Drescher; Stanley L. Engerman

Opis

Eminent scholars provide an overview of what we now know about slavery as an institution and way of life in cultures around the globe from a ncient times to the present day. Drawing on the virtual explosion of e mpirical research and theoretical discussion of the subject over the p ast thirty years, many of the articles overturn conventional wisdom an d illuminate little-known aspects of the subject, with essays on topic s such as concubinage, eunuchs, occupational mobility.