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Arbitrary rule : slavery, tyranny, and the power of life and death / Mary Nyquist.
LIBRA JC381 .N97 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nyquist, Mary.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Despotism.
- Slavery--History.
- Slavery.
- History.
- Slavery in literature.
- Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
- Hobbes, Thomas.
- Locke, John, 1632-1704.
- Locke, John.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 421 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- 1. Ancient Greek and Roman slaveries
- 2. Sixteenth-century French and English resistance theory
- 3. Human sacrifice, barbarism, and Buchanan's Jephtha
- 4. Antityranny, slavery, and revolution
- 5. Freeborn sons or slaves?
- 6. The power of life and death
- 7. Nakedness, history, and bare life
- 8. Hobbes's state of nature and "hard" privativism
- 9. Hobbes, slavery, and despotical rule
- 10. Locke's "On slavery," despotical power, and tyranny.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-408) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226015538
- 022601553X
- OCLC:
- 809910995
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