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Klappentext Interrogates the traditional binary 'slave societies'/'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding. Zusammenfassung This book examines the widely accepted binary distinction between 'slave societies' and 'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding. Top scholars engage in lively debate over the usefulness of this distinction and its applicability to societies across the world and through time. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Framing the question: what is a Slave Society? Noel Lenski; Part I. Ancient and Late Antique Western Societies: 2. Ancient Greece as a 'Slave Society' Peter Hunt; 3. Roman slavery and the idea of 'Slave Society' Kyle Harper and Walter Scheidel; 4. Ancient slaveries and modern ideology Noel Lenski; Part II. Non-Western Small-Scale Societies: 5. The nature of slavery in small-scale societies Catherine Cameron; 6. Native American slavery in global context Christina Snyder; 7. Slavery as structure, process, or lived experience, or why slave societies existed in pre-contact tropical America Fernando Santos-Granero; 8. Slavery in societies on the frontiers of centralized states in West Africa Paul Lovejoy; Part III. Modern Western Societies: 9. The colonial Brazilian 'Slave Society': potentialities, limits and challenges to an interpretative model inspired by Moses Finley Aldair Carlos Rodrigues; 10. What is a Slave Society? The American South Robert Gudmestad; 11. Islands of slavery: archaeology and Caribbean landscapes of intensification Theresa Singleton; Part IV. Non-Western State Societies: 12. Was nineteenth-century Eastern Arabia a 'Slave Society'? Matthew Hopper; 13. Slavery and society in East Africa, Oman, and the Persian Gulf Bernard K. Freamon; 14. Ottoman and Islamic societies: were they 'Slave Societies'? Ehud Toledano; 15. A microhistorical analysis of Korean Nobis through the prism of the lawsuit of Damulsari Kim Bok-rae; 16. 'Slavery so Gentle': a fluid spectrum of Southeast Asian conditions of bondage Anthony Reid; Conclusion. Intersections: slaveries, borderlands, edges James F. Brooks....
