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| Author | : Jane L. Rowlandson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 537 |
| Release | : 2024-03-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107032970 |
Translated ancient sources from over 3000 years of Egyptian history reveal the complex story of slavery in the Nile valley.
| Author | : Paulin Ismard |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2017-01-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0674660072 |
Genesis -- Servants of the city -- Strange slaves -- The democratic order of knowledge -- The mysteries of the Greek state
| Author | : Eric Williams |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2014-06-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1469619490 |
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, his profound critique became the foundation for studies of imperialism and economic development. Binding an economic view of history with strong moral argument, Williams's study of the role of slavery in financing the Industrial Revolution refuted traditional ideas of economic and moral progress and firmly established the centrality of the African slave trade in European economic development. He also showed that mature industrial capitalism in turn helped destroy the slave system. Establishing the exploitation of commercial capitalism and its link to racial attitudes, Williams employed a historicist vision that set the tone for future studies. In a new introduction, Colin Palmer assesses the lasting impact of Williams's groundbreaking work and analyzes the heated scholarly debates it generated when it first appeared.
| Author | : Sara Forsdyke |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2021-06-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107032342 |
Recovers the voices, experiences and agency of enslaved people in ancient Greece.
| Author | : Jane Rowlandson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 436 |
| Release | : 1998-11-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521588157 |
The period of Egyptian history from its rule by the Macedonian Ptolemaic dynasty to its incorporation into the Roman and Byzantine empires has left a wealth of evidence for the lives of ordinary men and women. Texts (often personal letters) written on papyrus and other materials, objects of everyday use and funerary portraits have survived from the Graeco-Roman period of Egyptian history. But much of this unparalleled resource has been available only to specialists because of the difficulty of reading and interpreting it. Now eleven leading scholars in this field have collaborated to make available to students and other non-specialists a selection of over three hundred texts translated from Greek and Egyptian, as well as more than fifty illustrations, documenting the lives of women within this society, from queens to priestesses, property-owners to slave-girls, from birth through motherhood to death. Each item is accompanied by full explanatory notes and bibliographical references.
| Author | : David Eltis |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 777 |
| Release | : 2011-07-25 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0521840686 |
The various manifestations of coerced labour between the opening up of the Atlantic world and the formal creation of Haiti.
| Author | : Noel Emmanuel Lenski |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 527 |
| Release | : 2018-05-10 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107144892 |
Interrogates the traditional binary 'slave societies'/'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.
| Author | : Damian Alan Pargas |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 1711 |
| Release | : 2017-12-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004346619 |
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.
| Author | : David Warburton |
| Publisher | : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : |
Combining philological investigation and theoretical reasoning, this book offers a completely new interpretation of the economic role of the state in ancient Egypt. The first part provides background outlining the relevance of Keynes General Theory to the ancient Egyptian economy. The central part uses ancient Egyptian texts as the foundation of an analysis of words commonly assumed to relate to taxation during the New Kingdom (c. 15401070 B.C.E.). The conclusions summarize the philological results and explore the role of the temples in the ancient Egyptian state during the New Kingdom. The result places ancient Egyptian taxation and state economic activity in a market context, opening a new path to the understanding of the ancient Egyptian economy based on an analysis of primary sources.
