The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World

The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
Author: Walter Scheidel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 17
Release: 2007-11-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521780535

In this, the first comprehensive survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. They reflect a new interest in economic growth in antiquity and develop new methods for measuring economic development, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately.

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.

The Cambridge World History

The Cambridge World History
Author: Jerry H. Bentley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-04-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521761628

The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, technology, and cities, along with regional studies of empires in the eastern and western hemispheres, crossroads areas such as the Indian Ocean, Central Asia, and the Caribbean, and sites of competition and conflict, including Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. The second book focuses on patterns of change, examining the expansion of Christianity and Islam, migrations, warfare, and other topics on a global scale, and offering insightful detailed analyses of the Columbian exchange, slavery, silver, trade, entrepreneurs, Asian religions, legal encounters, plantation economies, early industrialism, and the writing of history.

Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE

Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE
Author: Chris L. de Wet
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2022-02-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108758363

Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE investigates the ideological, moral, cultural, and symbolic aspects of slavery, as well the living conditions of slaves in the Mediterranean basin and Europe during a period of profound transformation. It focuses on socially marginal areas and individuals on an unprecedented scale. Written by an international team of scholars, the volume establishes that late ancient slavery is a complex and polymorphous phenomenon, one that was conditioned by culture and geography. Rejecting preconceived ideas about slavery as static and without regional variation, it offers focused case studies spanning the late ancient period. They provide in-depth analyses of authors and works, and consider a range of factors relevant to the practice of slavery in specific geographical locations. Using comparative and methodologically innovative approaches, this book revisits and questions established assumptions about late ancient slavery. It also enables fresh insights into one of humanity's most tragic institutions.

Slavery in the Roman World

Slavery in the Roman World
Author: Sandra R. Joshel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2010-08-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521535018

A lively and comprehensive overview of Roman slavery, ideal for introductory-level students of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Slavery and Society at Rome

Slavery and Society at Rome
Author: Keith Bradley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 1994-10-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 131613914X

This book, first published in 1994, is concerned with discovering what it was like to be a slave in the classical Roman world, and with revealing the impact the institution of slavery made on Roman society at large. It shows how and in what sense Rome was a slave society through much of its history, considers how the Romans procured their slaves, discusses the work roles slaves fulfilled and the material conditions under which they spent their lives, investigates how slaves responded to and resisted slavery, and reveals how slavery, as an institution, became more and more oppressive over time under the impact of philosophical and religious teaching. The book stresses the harsh realities of life in slavery and the way in which slavery was an integral part of Roman civilisation.

The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 1, The Ancient Mediterranean World

The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 1, The Ancient Mediterranean World
Author: Keith Bradley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 632
Release: 2011-03-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521840668

Volume 1 in the new Cambridge World History of Slavery surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. These are often considered as the first examples in world history of genuine slave societies because of the widespread prevalence of chattel slavery, which is argued to have been a cultural manifestation of the ubiquitous violence in societies typified by incessant warfare. There was never any sustained opposition to slavery, and the new religion of Christianity probably reinforced rather than challenged its existence. In twenty-two chapters, leading scholars explore the centrality of slavery in ancient Mediterranean life using a wide range of textual and material evidence. Non-specialist readers in particular will find the volume an accessible account of the early history of this crucial phenomenon.

The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500–1820

The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500–1820
Author: Eliga Gould
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 1073
Release: 2022-03-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108317812

The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and communities that were already present when the first Europeans reached the Americas, others the adventurers and settlers dispatched by Europe's imperial powers to secure their American claims, and still others men and women brought as slaves or indentured servants to the colonies that European settlers founded. Collecting the thoughts of dynamic scholars working in the fields of early American, Atlantic, and global history, the volume presents an unrivalled portrait of the human richness and global connectedness of early modern America. Essay topics include exploration and environment, conquest and commerce, enslavement and emigration, dispossession and endurance, empire and independence, new forms of law and new forms of worship, and the creation and destruction when the peoples of four continents met in the Americas.