Critical Readings on Global Slavery (4 vols.)

Critical Readings on Global Slavery
Contents
Introduction: Global Perspectives on Slavery
Definitions and Global Approaches
	Definition and Distinction from Kindred Phenomena
	The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis
	The Emergence of a Slave Society
	Authority, Alienation, and Social Death
	The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold
	Slavery: A Question of Definition
	History as a Problem of Slaving
	Historiography and Research Problems of Slavery and the Slave Trade in a Global-Historical Perspective
Antiquity to the Early Modern Period
	Between Slavery and Freedom
	A Scientific Approach to Ancient Slavery?
	A Life-Course Approach to Household Slaves in the Late Third Millennium BC
	Slavery, Freedom and Citizenship in Classical Athens: Beyond a Legalistic Approach
	Justifications: Barbarians and Natural Slaves
	Novel Evidence for Roman Slavery
	Resisting Slavery
	Body Work: Slavery and the Pauline Churches
	How and Why Ancient Slavery Came to an End
	Slavery in Early China: A Socio-Cultural Approach
	Empire, Monotheism and Slavery in the Greater Mediterranean Region from Antiquity to the Early Modern Era
	Medieval Slavery in a New Geopolitical Space
	Slavery in Late Medieval Europe
	The Identity of the Slave in Scandinavia
	Slavery and Cultural Antipathy
	An Explanation of Military Slavery
	War, Servitude, and the Imperial Household: A Study of Palace Women in the Chola Empire
The Modern World: 1450–1900
	The Geography of Slaving in the Early Modern Mediterranean, 1500–1800
	Piracy, Ransom Slavery and Trade: French Participation in the Liberation of Ottoman Slaves from Malta during the 1620s
	Shifting Patterns of Ottoman Enslavement in the Early Modern Period
	Ransom Slavery along the Ottoman–Hungarian Frontier in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
	The Black Sea and the Slave Trade: The Role of Crimean Maritime Towns in the Trade in Slaves and Captives in the Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
	The Gypsies in the Romanian Lands during the Middle Ages: Slavery
	Serfs, Slaves, or Wage Earners? The Legal Status of Labour in Russia from a Comparative Perspective, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
	I Make Him My Dog/My Slave
	The Process of Enslavement and the Slave Trade
	Europeans and the Rise and Fall of African Slavery in the Americas: An Interpretation
	The Living Dead Aboard the Slave Ship at Sea
	From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Society in Mainland North America
	Task and Gang Systems: The Organization of Labor on New World Plantations
	Rethinking Palmares: Slave Resistance in Colonial Brazil
	The “Second Slavery”: Bonded Labor and the Transformation of the Nineteenth-Century World Economy
	Antislavery Debates: Tides of Historiography in Slavery and Antislavery
	Indian Ocean Slaves in Cape Town, 1695–1807
	Slavery, Forced Labour and Resistance in IndianOcean Africa and Asia
	Carrying Away the Unfortunate from India and Southeast Asia, 1500–1800
	“Closed” and “Open” Slave Systems in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia
	The Structure of Slavery in the Sulu Zone in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
	The Rise and Fall of the Transpacific Slave Trade
Contemporary Slavery
	Illicit Human Cargoes
	Slavery and the Slave Trade as International Issues, 1890–1939
	Trafficked into Slavery
	Forced Marriage: Slavery Qua Enslavement and the Civil War in Sierra Leone
	Slavery in its Contemporary Manifestations
Index