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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      13 March 2008
      ISBN:
      9780511482748
      9780521881838
      9781009113847
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482748
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.69kg, 390 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.596kg, 390 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
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    Ancient History, Classical Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, History
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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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    "This is a well researched book in which many of the arguments shaped by the respective scholars could very well become manuscript titles on their own in the future."
    World History Bulletin, Patrick Albano, Pierpont Community and Technical College

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