Serious research in and around the history-and contemporary reality-of slavery is very wide-ranging, and flourishes as never before. This new four-volume collection from Routledge's acclaimed series, Critical Concepts in Historical Studies, meets the need for a reference work to help users make sense of the subject's vast and dispersed literature, and the continuing explosion in research output.
Edited by two of the leading scholars in the area, the four volumes bring together in one 'mini library' both classic and contemporary contributions to provide authoritative coverage of the transatlantic slave trade; slavery in Africa and the Indian Ocean region; slave culture; the slave economy; and slave resistance. Other topics include family, gender, and community. The collection also gathers the best and most influential scholarship on attempts to abolish the trade, and the legacy of emancipation.
With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected materials in their intellectual context, Slavery is an essential work of reference. The collection will be particularly useful as a database allowing scattered and often inaccessible material to be easily located. It will also be welcomed as a crucial tool permitting rapid access to less familiar-and sometimes overlooked-texts. For scholars and advanced students of Slave Studies, it is a vital one-stop resource.
Edited by:
Gad Heuman,
Trevor Burnard
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 124mm
Weight: 3.152kg
ISBN: 9780415500357
ISBN 10: 0415500354
Series: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies
Pages: 1592
Publication Date: 27 September 2013
Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
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A / AS level
Format: Mixed media product
Publisher's Status: Active
Volume I: Origins, Varieties of Enslavement and the Slave Trade Volume II: Material Conditions: Work, Demography, Gender, and Family Volume III: Slave Culture, Religion, and Resistance Volume IV: Rrevolution, Antislavery, and Emancipation