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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      26 April 2018
      10 May 2018
      ISBN:
      9781316534908
      9781107144897
      9781316508039
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316534908
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.98kg, 524 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.75kg, 528 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Classical Studies, History, Global History
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    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.

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    Winner, 2018 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

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    ‘What Is a Slave Society? is highly engaging, broadly applicable, and surprisingly readable.’

    Lydial Wilson Marshal Source: African Archaeological Review

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