Greek Slave Systems in their Eastern Mediterranean Context, c.800-146 BC

Greek Slave Systems in their Eastern Mediterranean Context, c.800-146 BC
Author: David M. Lewis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2018-07-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0191082619

The orthodox view of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean holds that Greece and Rome were its only 'genuine slave societies', that is, societies in which slave labour contributed significantly to the economy and underpinned the wealth of elites. Other societies, traditionally labelled 'societies with slaves', are thought to have made little use of slave labour and therefore have been largely ignored in recent scholarship. This volume presents a radically different view of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean world, showing that elite exploitation of slave labour in Greece and the Near East shared some fundamental similarities, although the degree of elite dependence on slaves varied from region to region. Whilst slavery was indeed particularly highly developed in Greece and Rome, it was also economically entrenched in Carthage, and played a not insignificant role in the affairs of elites in Israel, Assyria, Babylonia, and Persia. The differing degrees to which Eastern Mediterranean elites exploited slave labour represents the outcome of a complex interplay between cultural, economic, political, geographical, and demographic factors. Proceeding on a regional basis, this book tracks the ways in which local conditions shaped a wide variety of Greek and Near Eastern slave systems, and how the legal architecture of slavery in individual regions was altered and adapted to accommodate these needs. The result is a nuanced exploration of the economic underpinnings of Greek elite culture that sets its reliance on slavery within a broader historical context and sheds light on the complex circumstances from which it emerged.

Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World

Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World
Author: Youval Rotman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780674036116

Looking at the Byzantine concept of slavery within the context of law, the labour market, medieval politics, and religion, the author illustrates how these contexts both reshaped and sustained the slave market.

What is a Slave Society?

What is a Slave Society?
Author: Noel Emmanuel Lenski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2018-05-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107144892

Interrogates the traditional binary 'slave societies'/'societies with slaves' as a paradigm for understanding the global practice of slaveholding.

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens

The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens
Author: Jenifer Neils
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2021-02-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108484557

This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.

Trouble of the World

Trouble of the World
Author: Zach Sell
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1469660466

In this innovative new study, Zach Sell returns to the explosive era of capitalist crisis, upheaval, and warfare between emancipation in the British Empire and Black emancipation in the United States. In this age of global capital, U.S. slavery exploded to a vastness hitherto unseen, propelled forward by the outrush of slavery-produced commodities to Britain, continental Europe, and beyond. As slavery-produced commodities poured out of the United States, U.S. slaveholders transformed their profits into slavery expansion. Ranging from colonial India to Australia and Belize, Sell's examination further reveals how U.S. slavery provided not only the raw material for Britain's explosive manufacturing growth but also inspired new hallucinatory imperial visions of colonial domination that took root on a global scale. What emerges is a tale of a system too powerful and too profitable to end, even after emancipation; it is the story of how slavery's influence survived emancipation, infusing empire and capitalism to this day.

The Greek State at War

The Greek State at War
Author: William Kendrick Pritchett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1974
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520027589

The volumes of The Greek State at War are an essential reference for the classical scholar. Professor Pritchett has systematically canvassed ancient texts and secondary literature for references to specific topics; each volume explores a unique aspect of Greek military practice.

Thraldom

Thraldom
Author: Stefan Brink
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 0197532357

The result of my research was turned into a book published in Swedish in 2012. This present book is a revised translation and extensively extended version of that book.

The Archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age

The Archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age
Author: Tamar Hodos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 738
Release: 2020-09-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1108901174

The Mediterranean's Iron Age period was one of its most dynamic eras. Stimulated by the movement of individuals and groups on an unprecedented scale, the first half of the first millennium BCE witnesses the development of Mediterranean-wide practices, including related writing systems, common features of urbanism, and shared artistic styles and techniques, alongside the evolution of wide-scale trade. Together, these created an engaged, interlinked and interactive Mediterranean. We can recognise this as the Mediterranean's first truly globalising era. This volume introduces students and scholars to contemporary evidence and theories surrounding the Mediterranean from the eleventh century until the end of the seventh century BCE to enable an integrated understanding of the multicultural and socially complex nature of this incredibly vibrant period.

Abolitionism

Abolitionism
Author: Richard S. Newman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190213221

A fresh synthesis of the abolitionist movement and ideas in the Anglo-American world.