The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History / edited by Damian A. Pargas, Juliane Schiel.

This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout history. In order to understand slavery - why it developed, and how it functioned in various societies – is to understand an important and widespread practice in world civilisations. With...

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Place / Publishing House:Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (XXIII, 716 p. 20 illus., 5 illus. in color.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1: Introduction: Historicising and Spatialising Global Slavery; Damian A. Pargas
  • Part 1: Ancient Societies (to 500 C.E.)
  • 2. Mesopotamian Slavery; Seth Richardson
  • 3: Ancient Egyptian Slavery; Ella Karev
  • 4: Slavery in Ancient Greece; Kostas Vlassopoulos
  • 5: Slavery in the Roman Empire; Noel Lenski
  • 6: Injection: An Archaeological Approach to Slavery; Catherine M. Cameron. Part 2: Medieval Societies (500-1500 C.E.)
  • 7: Slavery in the Byzantine Empire; Youval Rotman
  • 8: Slavery in Medieval Arabia; Magdalena Moorthy-Kloss
  • 9: Slavery in the Black Sea Region; Hannah Barker
  • 10: Slavery in the Western Mediterranean; Juliane Schiel
  • 11: The Question of Slavery in the Inca State; Karoline Noack and Kerstin Nowack
  • 12: Injection: A Gender Perspective on Domestic Slavery; Ruth Karras
  • Part 3: Early Modern Societies (1500-1800 C.E.)
  • 13: Slavery in the Mediterranean; Giulia Bonazza
  • 14: Slavery in the Ottoman Empire; Hayri Gökşin Özkoray
  • 15: Slavery in the Holy Roman Empire; Josef Köstlbauer
  • 16: Slavery and Serfdom in Muscovy and the Russian Empire; Hans-Heinrich Nolte and Elena Smolarz
  • 17: Slavery in Late Ming China; Claude Chevaleyre
  • 18: Slavery in Chosŏn Korea; Sun Joo Kim
  • 19: Slavery in the Indian Ocean World; Titas Chakraborty
  • 20: Maritime Passages in the Indian Ocean Slave Trade; Pedro Machado
  • 21: The Rise of Atlantic Slavery in the Americas; Michael Zeuske
  • 22: Plantation Slavery in the British Caribbean; Trevor Burnard
  • 23: Injection: Atlantic Slavery and Commodity Chains; Klaus Weber
  • Part 4: Modern Societies (1800-1900 C.E.)
  • 24: The Second Slavery in the Americas; Michael Zeuske
  • 25: Slavery in the US South; Damian A. Pargas
  • 26: Slavery in the Middle East and North Africa; Ismael M. Montana
  • 27: Slavery in Islamic West Africa; Jennifer Lofkrantz
  • 28: Urban East African Slavery; Michelle Liebst
  • 29: Slavery in South Asia; Emma Kalb
  • 30: Slavery in Southeastern Europe; Viorel Achim
  • 31: Injection: The Global Spread of Abolitionism; William Mulligan
  • Part 5: Contemporary Societies (1900-Present)
  • 32: American Slaveries since Emancipation; Catherine Armstrong
  • 33: Slavery in French West Africa; Benedetta Rossi
  • 34: Slave Labor in Nazi Germany; Marc Buggeln
  • 35: State-introduced Slavery in Soviet Forced Labor Camps; Felicitas Fischer von Weikersthal
  • 36: North Korean Slavery and Forced Labor in Present-Day Europe; Remco Breuker
  • 37: Modern Slavery in the Global Economy; Bruno Lamas
  • 38: Injection: Modern Slavery and Political Strategy; Joel Quirk
  • 39: Conclusion: Situating Slavery Studies in the Field of Global History; Juliane Schiel.