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The politics of slavery / Laura Brace.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brace, Laura, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Political aspects.
- Slavery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (v, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh University Press 2018
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Looking at scholarship on both 'old' and 'new' slavery, Laura Brace assesses the work of Aristotle, Locke, Hegel, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Mill, and explores the contemporary concerns of human trafficking and the prison industrial complex to consider the limitations of 'new slavery' discourse.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Shining a Light on Slavery?
- 2 Aristotle and the Strangeness of Slaves
- 3 Locke and Hutcheson: Indians, Vagabonds and Drones
- 4 Empires of Property, Properties of Empire
- 5 Humanity, Hegel and Freedom
- 6 Unparalleled Drudgery and the Deprivation of Freedom
- 7 The Subjection of Women: Loopholes of Retreat?
- 8 Incarceration and Rupture: The Past in the Present
- 9 Trafficking and Slavery: A Place of No Return
- 10 Glimpses of Slavery
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Nov 2020).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-240) and index.
- CC BY-NC
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)
- ISBN:
- 9781474445122
- 1474445128
- 9781474401159
- 1474401155
- 9781474404938
- 1474404936
- OCLC:
- 1306541173
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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