Comparative And Global Framing Of Enslavement

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Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement

Author : Stephan Conermann,Youval Rotman,Ehud R. Toledano,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111297330

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Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement by Stephan Conermann,Youval Rotman,Ehud R. Toledano,Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz Pdf

The study of enslavement has become urgent over the last two decades. Social scientists, legal scholars, human rights activists, and historians, who study forms of enslavement in both modern and historical societies, have sought – and often achieved – common conceptual grounds, thus forging a new perspective that comprises historical and contemporary forms of slavery. What could certainly be termed a turn in the study of slavery has also intensified awareness of enslavement as a global phenomenon, inviting a comparative, trans-regional approach across time-space divides. Though different aspects of enslavement in different societies and eras are discussed, each of the volume’s three parts contributes to, and has benefitted from, a global perspective of enslavement. The chapters in Part One propose to structure the global examination of the theoretical, ideological, and methodological aspects of the "global," "local," and "glocal." Part Two, "Regional and Trans-regional Perspectives of the Global," presents, through analyses of historical case studies, the link between connectivity and mobility as a fundamental aspect of the globalization of enslavement. Finally, Part Three deals with personal points of view regarding the global, local, and glocal. Grosso modo, the contributors do not only present their case studies, but attempt to demonstrate what insights and added-value explanations they gain from positioning their work vis-à-vis a broader "big picture."

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History

Author : Damian A. Pargas,Juliane Schiel
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031132605

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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History by Damian A. Pargas,Juliane Schiel Pdf

This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout history. To understand slavery - why it developed, and how it functioned in various societies – is to understand an important and widespread practice in world civilisations. With research traditionally being dominated by the Atlantic world, this collection aims to illuminate slavery that existed in not only the Americas but also ancient, medieval, North and sub-Saharan African, Near Eastern, and Asian societies. Connecting civilisations through migration, warfare, trade routes and economic expansion, the practice of slavery integrated countries and regions through power-based relationships, whilst simultaneously dividing societies by class, race, ethnicity and cultural group. Uncovering slavery as a globalising phenomenon, the authors highlight the slave-trading routes that crisscrossed Africa, helped integrate the Mediterranean world, connected Indian Ocean societies and fused the Atlantic world. Split into five parts, the handbook portrays the evolution of slavery from antiquity to the contemporary era and encourages readers to realise similarities and differences between various manifestations of slavery throughout history. Providing a truly global coverage of slavery, and including thematic injections within each chronological part, this handbook is a comprehensive and transnational resource for all researchers interested in slavery, the history of labour, and anthropology.

Narratives of Dependency

Author : Elke Brüggen,Marion Gymnich
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111381824

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Narratives of Dependency by Elke Brüggen,Marion Gymnich Pdf

Given that strong asymmetrical dependencies have shaped human societies throughout history, this kind of social relation has also left its traces in many types of texts. Using written and oral narratives in attempts to reconstruct the history of asymmetrical dependency comes along with various methodological challenges, as the 15 articles in this interdisciplinary volume illustrate. They focus on a wide range of different (factual and fictional) text types, including inscriptions from Egyptian tombs, biblical stories, novels from antiquity, the Middle High German Rolandslied, Ottoman court records, captivity narratives, travelogues, the American gift book The Liberty Bell, and oral narratives by Caribbean Hindu women. Most of the texts discussed in this volume have so far received comparatively little attention in slavery and dependency studies. The volume thus also seeks to broaden the archive of texts that are deemed relevant in research on the histories of asymmetrical dependencies, bringing together perspectives from disciplines such as Egyptology, theology, literary studies, history, and anthropology

Writing the History of Global Slavery

Author : Trevor Burnard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009406246

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Writing the History of Global Slavery by Trevor Burnard Pdf

This Element shows that existing models of global slavery derived from sociology and modelled closely on antebellum American slavery being normative should be replaced a global slavery that is less American and more global. It argues that we can understand the global history of slavery if we connect it more closely to another important world institution - empires in ways that historicise the study of history as an institution with a history that changes over time and space. Moreover, we can learn from scholars of modern slavery and use more than we do the enormous proliferation of usable sources about the lives, experiences and thoughts of the enslaved, from ancient to modern times, to make these voices of the enslaved crucial drivers of how we conceptualise and describe the varied kinds of global slavery in world history. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900–1900

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004470897

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Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900–1900 by Anonim Pdf

Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900–1900 explores the Black Sea region as an encounter zone of cultures, legal regimes, religions, and enslavement practices. The topics discussed in the chapters include Byzantine slavery, late medieval slave trade patterns, slavery in Christian societies, Tatar and cossack raids, the position of Circassians in the slave trade, and comparisons with the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. This volume aims to stimulate a broader discussion on the patterns of unfreedom in the Black Sea area and to draw attention to the importance of this region in the broader debates on global slavery. Contributors are: Viorel Achim, Michel Balard, Hannah Barker, Andrzej Gliwa, Colin Heywood, Sergei Pavlovich Karpov, Mikhail Kizilov, Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Maryna Kravets, Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska, Sandra Origone, Victor Ostapchuk, Daphne Penna, Felicia Roșu, and Ehud R. Toledano.

What Is a Slave Society?

Author : Noel Lenski,Catherine Cameron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108607407

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What Is a Slave Society? by Noel Lenski,Catherine Cameron Pdf

The practice of slavery has been common across a variety of cultures around the globe and throughout history. Despite the multiplicity of slavery's manifestations, many scholars have used a simple binary to categorize slave-holding groups as either 'genuine slave societies' or 'societies with slaves'. This dichotomy, as originally proposed by ancient historian Moses Finley, assumes that there were just five 'genuine slave societies' in all of human history: ancient Greece and Rome, and the colonial Caribbean, Brazil, and the American South. This book interrogates this bedrock of comparative slave studies and tests its worth. Assembling contributions from top specialists, it demonstrates that the catalogue of five must be expanded and that the model may need to be replaced with a more flexible system that emphasizes the notion of intensification. The issue is approached as a question, allowing for debate between the seventeen contributors about how best to conceptualize the comparative study of human bondage.

Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination

Author : Srividhya Swaminathan,Adam R. Beach
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317112983

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Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination by Srividhya Swaminathan,Adam R. Beach Pdf

In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary representations of slavery encompassed tales of Barbary captivity, the ’exotic’ slaving practices of the Ottoman Empire, the political enslavement practiced by government or church, and even the harsh life of servants under a cruel master. Arguing that literary and cultural studies have focused too narrowly on slavery as a term that refers almost exclusively to the race-based chattel enslavement of sub-Saharan Africans transported to the New World, the contributors suggest that these analyses foreclose deeper discussion of other associations of the term. They suggest that the term slavery became a powerful rhetorical device for helping British audiences gain a new perspective on their own position with respect to their government and the global sphere. Far from eliding the real and important differences between slave systems operating in the Atlantic world, this collection is a starting point for understanding how slavery as a concept came to encompass many forms of unfree labor and metaphorical bondage precisely because of the power of association.

Disposable People

Author : Kevin Bales
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520951389

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Disposable People by Kevin Bales Pdf

Slavery is illegal throughout the world, yet more than twenty-seven million people are still trapped in one of history's oldest social institutions. Kevin Bales's disturbing story of slavery today reaches from brick kilns in Pakistan and brothels in Thailand to the offices of multinational corporations. His investigation of conditions in Mauritania, Brazil, Thailand, Pakistan, and India reveals the tragic emergence of a "new slavery," one intricately linked to the global economy. The new slaves are not a long-term investment as was true with older forms of slavery, explains Bales. Instead, they are cheap, require little care, and are disposable. Three interrelated factors have helped create the new slavery. The enormous population explosion over the past three decades has flooded the world's labor markets with millions of impoverished, desperate people. The revolution of economic globalization and modernized agriculture has dispossessed poor farmers, making them and their families ready targets for enslavement. And rapid economic change in developing countries has bred corruption and violence, destroying social rules that might once have protected the most vulnerable individuals. Bales's vivid case studies present actual slaves, slaveholders, and public officials in well-drawn historical, geographical, and cultural contexts. He observes the complex economic relationships of modern slavery and is aware that liberation is a bitter victory for a child prostitute or a bondaged miner if the result is starvation. Bales offers suggestions for combating the new slavery and provides examples of very positive results from organizations such as Anti-Slavery International, the Pastoral Land Commission in Brazil, and the Human Rights Commission in Pakistan. He also calls for researchers to follow the flow of raw materials and products from slave to marketplace in order to effectively target campaigns of "naming and shaming" corporations linked to slavery. Disposable People is the first book to point the way to abolishing slavery in today's global economy. All of the author's royalties from this book go to fund anti-slavery projects around the world.

Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire

Author : Stephan Conermann,Gül Şen
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783847010371

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Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire by Stephan Conermann,Gül Şen Pdf

Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire offers a new contribution to slavery studies relating to the Ottoman Empire. Given the fact that the classical binary of 'slavery' and 'freedom' derives from the transatlantic experience, this volume presents an alternative approach by examining the strong asymmetric relationships of dependency documented in the Ottoman Empire. A closer look at the Ottoman social order discloses manifold and ambiguous conditions involving enslavement practices, rather than a single universal pattern. The authors examine various forms of enslavement and dependency with a particular focus on agency, i. e. the room for maneuver, which the enslaved could secure for themselves, or else the available options for action in situations of extreme individual or group dependencies.

The Russian Empire, Slaving and Liberation, 1480-1725

Author : Christoph Witzenrath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 311152096X

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The Russian Empire, Slaving and Liberation, 1480-1725 by Christoph Witzenrath Pdf

The monograph realigns political culture and countermeasures against slave raids, which increased during the breakup of the Golden Horde. By physical defense of the open steppe border and by embracing the New Israel symbolism in which the exodus from slavery in Egypt prefigures the exodus of Russian captives from Tatar captivity, Muscovites found a defensive model to expand empire. Recent scholarly debates on slaving are innovatively applied to Russian and imperial history, challenging entrenched perceptions of Muscovy.

Critical Readings on Global Slavery

Author : Damian Alan Pargas,Felicia Roşu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1711 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004346611

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Critical Readings on Global Slavery by Damian Alan Pargas,Felicia Roşu Pdf

Critical Readings on Global Slavery offers students and researchers a rich collection of previously published works by some of the most preeminent scholars of slavery in various regions and time periods, from antiquity to the present day.

The Holocaust and New World Slavery

Author : Steven T. Katz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108244480

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The Holocaust and New World Slavery by Steven T. Katz Pdf

This volume offers the first, in-depth comparison of the Holocaust and new world slavery. Providing a reliable view of the relevant issues, and based on a broad and comprehensive set of data and evidence, Steven Katz analyzes the fundamental differences between the two systems and re-evaluates our understanding of the Nazi agenda. Among the subjects he examines are: the use of black slaves as workers compared to the Nazi use of Jewish labor; the causes of slave demographic decline and growth in different New World locations; the main features of Jewish life during the Holocaust relative to slave life with regard to such topics as diet, physical punishment, medical care, and the role of religion; the treatment of slave women and children as compared to the treatment of Jewish women and children in the Holocaust. Katz shows that slave women were valued as workers, as reproducers of future slaves, and as sexual objects, and that slave children were valued as commodities. For these reasons, neither slave women nor children were intentionally murdered. By comparison, Jewish slave women and children were viewed as the ultimate racial enemy and therefore had to be exterminated. These and other findings conclusively demonstrate the uniqueness of the Holocaust compared with other historical instances of slavery.

What Is a Slave Society?

Author : Noel Lenski,Catherine M. Cameron
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108633208

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What Is a Slave Society? by Noel Lenski,Catherine M. Cameron Pdf

The practice of slavery has been common across a variety of cultures around the globe and throughout history. Despite the multiplicity of slavery's manifestations, many scholars have used a simple binary to categorize slave-holding groups as either 'genuine slave societies' or 'societies with slaves'. This dichotomy, as originally proposed by ancient historian Moses Finley, assumes that there were just five 'genuine slave societies' in all of human history: ancient Greece and Rome, and the colonial Caribbean, Brazil, and the American South. This book interrogates this bedrock of comparative slave studies and tests its worth. Assembling contributions from top specialists, it demonstrates that the catalogue of five must be expanded and that the model may need to be replaced with a more flexible system that emphasizes the notion of intensification. The issue is approached as a question, allowing for debate between the seventeen contributors about how best to conceptualize the comparative study of human bondage.

Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium

Author : Youval Rotman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674057616

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Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium by Youval Rotman Pdf

Prologue. Insanity and religion -- Part I. Sanctified insanity: between history and psychology -- The paradox that inhabits ambiguity -- Meanings of insanity -- Part II. Abnormality and social change: early Christianity vs. rabbinic Judaism -- Abnormality and social change -- Socializing nature: the ascetic totem -- Epilogue. Psychology, religion, and social change

Slavery's Metropolis

Author : Rashauna Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107133716

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Slavery's Metropolis by Rashauna Johnson Pdf

A vivid examination of slave life in New Orleans in the early nineteenth century.