Slave Systems Ancient and Modern
“Slave Systems Ancient and Modern” by Enrico Dal Lago is an illustrated collection published by Cambridge University Press on March 13, 2008. This 390-page book explores the evolution of unfree labor from the ancient Mediterranean to the modern Atlantic, utilizing comparative history methodologies to analyze various forms of slavery. The work is structured around eleven chapters that address conceptual issues and historical comparisons, featuring case studies that span from classical Greece and the Roman Empire to slavery in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States.
Readers will find a thorough examination of how ancient ideologies and practices of slavery have influenced modern systems. The book highlights the similarities in issues and challenges related to slavery across different historical contexts. By focusing on both ancient and modern examples, this collection provides insights into the continuity and transformation of slavery as a social institution, making it a significant contribution to the fields of history and social science.
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A ground-breaking edited collection charting the rise and fall of forms of unfree labour in the ancient Mediterranean and in the modern Atlantic, employing the methodology of comparative history. The eleven chapters in the book deal with conceptual issues and different approaches to historical comparison, and include specific case-studies ranging from the ancient forms of slavery of classical Greece and of the Roman empire to the modern examples of slavery that characterised the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. The results demonstrate both how much the modern world has inherited from the ancient in regard to ideology and practice of slavery; and also how many of the issues and problems related to the latter seem to have been fundamentally similar across time and space.
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