The Cambridge World History of Slavery
The Cambridge World History of Slavery
David Eltis , Emory University, Atlanta
Stanley L. Engerman , University of Rochester, New York
David Richardson , University of Hull
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GBPMedieval slavery has received little attention relative to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the early modern Atlantic world. This imbalance in the scholarship has led many to assume that slavery was of minor importance in the Middle Ages. In fact, the practice of slavery continued unabated across the globe throughout the medieval millennium. This volume – the final volume in The Cambridge World History of Slavery – covers the period between the fall of Rome and the rise of the transatlantic plantation complexes by assembling twenty-three original essays, written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. The volume demonstrates the continual and central presence of slavery in societies worldwide between 500 CE and 1420 CE. The essays analyze key concepts in the history of slavery, including gender, trade, empire, state formation and diplomacy, labor, childhood, social status and mobility, cultural attitudes, spectrums of dependency and coercion, and life histories of enslaved people.
- The first multi-author volume written by specialists to cover slavery in a wide variety of medieval contexts around the globe
- Offers comparative coverage of slavery in seventeen different medieval societies and regions as well as thematic chapters on the practice of slavery
- Completes the four-volume set, which is the first attempt to examine the role of slavery across 2.5 millennia of human history
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August 2021Hardback
9780521840675
602 pages
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Table of Contents
- List of figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1. Slavery in the medieval millennium Craig Perry, David Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, and David Richardson
- Part I. Captivity and the Slave Trade:
- 2. The greater Mediterranean slave trade Jeff Fynn-Paul
- 3. Captivity, ransom, and manumission, 500–1420 Hussein Fancy
- 4. Forced migrations and slavery in the Mongol empire (1206–1368) Michal Biran
- 5. The trade in slaves in the Black Sea, Russia, and Eastern Europe Hannah Barker
- 6. Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Western Indian Ocean Craig Perry
- Part II. Race, Sex, and Everyday Life:
- 7. Child Enslavement in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Judith Evans Grubbs
- 8. Intersections of gender, sex, and slavery: female sexual slavery Shaun Marmon
- 9. Attitudes toward blackness Steven A. Epstein
- 10. Slavery and agency in the middle ages Craig Perry
- Part III. East and South Asia:
- 11. Slavery in medieval China Don J. Wyatt
- 12. Slavery in medieval Korea Seung B. Kye
- 13. Slavery and dependency in medieval South India Leslie C. Orr
- Part IV. The Islamic World:
- 14. Slavery in the Islamic Middle East (c. 600–1000 CE) Matthew S. Gordon
- 15. Military slavery in medieval North India Ali Anooshahr
- 16. Slavery in the Mamluk Sultanate Stephan Conermann
- 17. Slavery in the early modern Ottoman empire Nur Sobers-Khan
- Part V. Africa, The Americas, and Europe:
- 18. Slavery in the Carolingian empire Alice Rio
- 19. Slavery in the Byzantine empire Noel Lenski
- 20. Slavery in Northern Europe (Scandinavia and Iceland) and the British Isles, 500–1420 David Wyatt
- 21. Slavery in medieval Iberia Debra Blumenthal
- 22. Slavery in Africa c. 500–1500 CE: archaeological and historical perspectives Paul J. Lane
- 23. Slavery in precontact America Camilla Townsend
- Index.
