| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 263 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Edinburgh studies in ancient slavery
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Edinburgh studies in ancient slavery.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-251) and indexes. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction -- 2. Historiographies: Formation of the Dominant Paradigm in the Study of Ancient Slavery ; Global Study of Slavery ; Recent Developments in the Study of Ancient Slavery -- 3. What Is Slavery?: An Instructive Case: Early Medieval Slavery and `Serfdom' ; The Conceptual Systems of Slavery -- 4. Slaving Strategies and Contexts: Slaving Strategies ; Slaving Contexts ; Slave-making -- 5. Enslaved Persons: Identification Modes and Forms of Relationships ; Categorisation, Self-understanding and Groupness -- 6. Dialectical Relationships: Master-Slave Relationship ; Free-Slave Relationship ; Relationships Within Slave Communities -- 7. Slave View of Slavery: Slave Hopes and the Reality of Slavery: Modalities of Slavery ; Exploring Slave Hopes under Slavery ; Slave Hope for Freedom -- 8. Slaving in Space and Time: Epichoric Systems of Slaving ; Societies with Slaves and Slave Societies ; Accounting for Change ; Agency of Enslaved Persons and Historical Change -- 9. Conclusions. |
| Summary |
"Informed by the global history of slavery, Kostas Vlassopoulos avoids traditional approaches to slavery as a static institution and instead explores the diverse strategies and various contexts in which it was employed. In doing so he offers a new historicist approach to the study of slave identity and the various networks and communities that slaves created or participated in."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Biography |
Kostas Vlassopoulos is Associate Professor of Ancient History at the University of Crete. He was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2012) for his contribution to the field of Classics. He is the author of Unthinking the Greek Polis: Ancient Greek History beyond Eurocentrism (2007), Politics: Antiquity and its Legacy (2010), Greeks and Barbarians (2013) and co-author of My Whole Life: Stories from the Everyday Life of Ancient Slaves (2020). He is co-editor of Slavery, Citizenship and the State (2009), Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World (2015), Violence and Community: Law, Space and Identity in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean World (2017) and The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries (2016). |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Slavery -- History -- To 1500.
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Slavery. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Civilization, Ancient.
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Civilization, Ancient. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Vlassopoulos, Kostas, 1977- Historicising ancient slavery. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021 9781474487214 (OCoLC)1201384521 |
| ISBN |
9781474487238 electronic book PDF |
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1474487238 electronic book PDF |
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9781474487245 electronic book epub |
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1474487246 electronic book epub |
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9781474487214 hardback |
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1474487211 hardback |
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