Serfdom and Slavery Studies in Legal Bondage |
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| Author:
| Bush, M. L. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-317-88748-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2014 |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group
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| Imprint: | Routledge |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $84.95USD $210.00USD $210.00 |
Book Description:
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Serfdom and Slavery explores the variety and common characteristics - of legal bondage in Europe and the New World since classical times. Within a tightly controlled framework of general contextual chapters followed by specific case studies, a distinguished team of scholars offers 17 specially written essays which range from classical Greece to early modern Brandenburg, and from medieval England to nineteenth-century Russia. It makes an important contribution to a topic of...
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Serfdom and Slavery explores the variety and common characteristics - of legal bondage in Europe and the New World since classical times. Within a tightly controlled framework of general contextual chapters followed by specific case studies, a distinguished team of scholars offers 17 specially written essays which range from classical Greece to early modern Brandenburg, and from medieval England to nineteenth-century Russia. It makes an important contribution to a topic of increasing international interest.
Contributors include Robert Brenner, Wendy Davies, Christopher Dyer, Stanley Engerman, William Hagen, Richard Saller and Howard Temperley.