The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 1, The Ancient Mediterranean WorldDavid Eltis, Stanley L. Engerman, Keith R. Bradley, Paul Cartledge, Seymour Drescher "Most societies in the past have had slaves, and almost all peoples have at some time in their pasts been both slaves as well as owners of slaves. Recent decades have seen a significant increase in our understanding of the historical role played by slavery and wide interest across a range of academic disciplines in the evolution of the institution. Exciting and innovative research methodologies have been developed, and numerous fruitful debates generated. Further, the study of slavery has come to provide strong connections between academic research and the wider public interest at a time when such links have in general been weak. The Cambridge World History of Slavery responds to these trends by providing for the first time, in four volumes, a comprehensive global history of this widespread phenomenon from the ancient world to the present day. Volume I 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"--Provided by publisher. |
Contents
introduction | 1 |
CHAPTER 1 Slavery in the ancient Near East | 4 |
CHAPTER 2 Slaves in Greek literary culture | 22 |
CHAPTER 3 Classical Athens | 48 |
a contemporary review | 74 |
CHAPTER 5 Slavery and economy in the Greek world | 91 |
CHAPTER 6 The slave supply in classical Greece | 112 |
CHAPTER 7 Slavery and the Greek family | 134 |
CHAPTER 15 Slave labour and roman society | 311 |
CHAPTER 16 Slavery and the Roman family | 337 |
CHAPTER 17 Resisting slavery at Rome | 362 |
CHAPTER 18 Slavery and Roman material culture | 385 |
CHAPTER 19 Slavery and Roman law | 414 |
CHAPTER 20 Slavery and the Jews | 438 |
CHAPTER 21 Slavery and the rise of Christianity | 456 |
CHAPTER 22 Slavery in the late Roman world | 482 |
CHAPTER 8 Resistance among chattel slaves in the classical Greek world | 153 |
CHAPTER 9 Archaeology and Greek slavery | 176 |
CHAPTER 10 Slavery in the Hellenistic world | 194 |
CHAPTER 11 Slavery and Roman literary culture | 214 |
CHAPTER 12 Slavery in the Roman Republic | 241 |
CHAPTER 13 Slavery Under the Principate | 265 |
CHAPTER 14 The Roman slave supply | 287 |
Bibliography | 510 |
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Index of inscriptions and papyri | 616 |
Index of jewish and christian literature cited | 619 |
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