What is a slave society? : the practice of slavery in global perspective / edited by Noel Lenski (Ya...
What is a slave society? : the practice of slavery in global perspective / edited by Noel Lenski (Ya...
What is a slave society? : the practice of slavery in global perspective / edited by Noel Lenski (Yale University), Catherine M. Cameron (University of Colorado, Boulder) ; with the assistance of Joshua Fincher.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
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G 2019/2995
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English
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Physical content
xvii, 508 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
1. Framing the question: what is a Slave Society? / Noel Lenski ; Part I. Ancient and Late Antique Western Societies. 2. Ancient Greece as a 'Slave Society' / Peter Hunt ; 3. Roman slavery and the idea of 'Slave Society' / Kyle Harper and Walter Scheidel ; 4. Ancient slaveries and modern ideology /...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Date Published
2018.
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Summary
"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 anci...
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What is a slave society? : the practice of slavery in global perspective / edited by Noel Lenski (Yale University), Catherine M. Cameron (University of Colorado, Boulder) ; with the assistance of Joshua Fincher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-499) and index.
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ebook version : 9781108633208
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©2018
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G 2019/2995
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74VKVB8Md7VO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVB8Md7VO
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ISBN
9781107144897
DDC
306.362
MMS ID
991024242007202626
