ePub Slavery After Rome; 500-1100 (Oxford Studies in Medieval European History) by Alice Rio in History

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The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas offers penetrating; original; and authoritative essays on the history and historiography of the institution of slavery in the New World. With essays on colonial and antebellum America; Brazil; the Caribbean; the Indies; and South America; the Handbook has impressive geographic and temporal coverage. It also includes a generous range of thematic essays on comparative slavery; the economics of slavery; historical methodology in the field; slavery and the law; for instance. While obviously indebted to the foundational works of the 1960s and 1970s; current writing on the history of slavery and forms of unfree labor in the Americas has taken decidedly original; new; often ingenious turns. A younger generation of scholars has shown a healthy respect for that tradition while posing new; often interdisciplinary; and theoretically informed questions; considering; for example; the nature and definition of slave resistance in the Americas; evolving meanings of gender and race under slavery; the complicated nature of class formation in unfree societies; the elaboration of proslavery and antislavery ideologies; the origins and subsequent elaboration of race-based slavery; and mechanisms of emancipation. Written by an international team including some of the field's most eminent historians and the most innovative younger scholars working today; The Oxford Handbook of Slavery in the Americas seeks to explain the enduring importance of the earlier historiography; identify current trends and developments; and offer suggestive but informed commentary on future developments in the field for a global scholarly audience.