Writing the History of Slavery

AvDavid Stefan Doddington,Enrico Dal Lago

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

Exploring the major historiographical, theoretical, and methodological approaches that have shaped studies on slavery, this addition to the Writing History series highlights the varied ways that historians have approached the fluid and complex systems of human bondage, domination, and exploitation that have developed in societies across the world. The first part examines more recent attempts to place slavery in a global context, touching on contexts such as religion, empire, and capitalism.In its second part, the book looks closely at the key themes and methods that emerge as historians reckon with the dynamics of historical slavery. These range from politics, economics and quantitative analyses, to race and gender, to pyschohistory, history from below, and many more. Throughout, examples of slavery and its impact are considered across time and place: in Ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval Europe, colonial Asia, Africa, and the Americas, and trades throughout the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Also taken into account are thinkers from Antiquity to the 20th century and the impact their ideas have had on the subject and the debates that follow.This book is essential reading for students and scholars at all levels who are interested in not only the history of slavery but in how that history has come to be written and how its debates have been framed across civilizations.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-02-10
Mått:156 x 234 x 36 mm
Vikt:800 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Writing History
Antal sidor:480
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781474285575

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Mer om författaren

David Stefan Doddington is Senior Lecturer in North American History at Cardiff University, UKEnrico Dal Lago is Professor of American History at National University of Ireland, Galway, UK

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This is a fascinating volume on the historiography of slavery. It has interesting chapters on how historians have approached the global history of slavery and concepts such as empire, capitalism and antislavery. The book also deals with the methods and perspectives historians have used to explore slavery, including race, gender and memory. A valuable and important collection.

Innehållsförteckning

Part I: Global approaches1 Defining slavery in global perspective (David Lewis, University of Edinburgh, UK)2 Writing global histories of slavery (Michael Zeuske, University of Cologne, Germany, University of Bonn, Germany, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba)3 Slavery and empire (Trevor Burnard, University of Hull, UK)4 The ‘Great Divergence’: Slavery, capitalism and world-economy, (Dale Tomich, Binghamton University, USA)5 Approaches to global antislavery (Seymour Drescher, University of Pittsburgh, USA)6 Comparative and transnational histories of slavery (Enrico Dal Lago, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland)Part II: Themes and methods 7 Political and legal histories of slavery (Sue Peabody, Washington State University, USA)8 Writing national histories of slavery (Lewis Eliot, University of Oklahoma, USA)9 Writing the religious history of the enslaved in the Atlantic World (Matt D. Childs, University of South Carolina, USA)10 What historians of slavery write about when we write about race, (Jacqueline Jones, University of Texas at Austin, USA)11 Gender history and slavery (David Stefan Doddington, Cardiff University, UK)12 Dispossessed lives: Enslaved women, violence, and the archive, (Marisa J. Fuentes, Rutgers University, USA with an introduction from Elizabeth Maeve Barnes, University of Reading, UK)13 Slavery, postcolonialism and the colonial archive, (Andrea Major, University of Leeds, UK)14 Imagining slavery in Roman antiquity (K.R. Bradley, University of Notre Dame, USA)15 Quantitative histories of slavery, (Andrea Livesey, Liverpool John Moores University, UK)16 Psychohistory and slavery, (Patrick H. Breen, Providence College, USA)17 Material culture, archaeology and slavery, (Lydia Wilson Marshall, DePauw University, USA)18 Slavery and the cultural turn, (Raquel Kennon, California State University, Northridge, USA)19 Re-tooling memory and memory tools: America’s ongoing re-memory of slavery, (Marcus Wood, University of Sussex, UK)