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Historicising ancient slavery / Kostas Vlassopoulos.
LIBRA HT863 .V53 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vlassopoulos, Kostas, 1977- author.
- Series:
- Edinburgh studies in ancient slavery
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--History--To 1500.
- Slavery.
- Civilization, Ancient.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 263 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction
- 2. Historiographies
- The Formation of the Dominant Paradigm in the Study of Ancient Slavery
- The Global Study of Slavery
- Recent Developments in the Study of Ancient Slavery
- 3. What Is Slavery?
- An Instructive Case: Early Medieval Slavery and `Serfdom'
- The Conceptual Systems of Slavery
- 4. Slaving Strategies and Contexts
- Slaving Strategies
- Slaving Contexts
- Slave-making
- 5. Enslaved Persons
- Identification Modes and Forms of Relationships
- Categorisation, Self-understanding and Groupness
- 6. Dialectical Relationships
- The Master-Slave Relationship
- The Free
- Slave Relationship
- The Relationships Within Slave Communities
- 7. The Slave View of Slavery: Slave Hopes and the Reality of Slavery
- Modalities of Slavery
- Exploring Slave Hopes under Slavery
- The Slave Hope for Freedom
- 8. Slaving in Space and Time
- Epichoric Systems of Slaving
- Societies with Slaves and Slave Societies
- Accounting for Change
- The Agency of Enslaved Persons and Historical Change
- 9. Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-251) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1474487211
- 9781474487214
- OCLC:
- 1201384521
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