Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement
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Edited by:
Stephan Conermann
About this book
Open Access
The study of enslavement has become urgent over the last two decades. Social scientists, legal scholars, human rights activists, and historians, who study forms of enslavement in both modern and historical societies, have sought – and often achieved – common conceptual grounds, thus forging a new perspective that comprises historical and contemporary forms of slavery. What could certainly be termed a turn in the study of slavery has also intensified awareness of enslavement as a global phenomenon, inviting a comparative, trans-regional approach across time-space divides. Though different aspects of enslavement in different societies and eras are discussed, each of the volume’s three parts contributes to, and has benefitted from, a global perspective of enslavement. The chapters in Part One propose to structure the global examination of the theoretical, ideological, and methodological aspects of the "global," "local," and "glocal." Part Two, "Regional and Trans-regional Perspectives of the Global," presents, through analyses of historical case studies, the link between connectivity and mobility as a fundamental aspect of the globalization of enslavement. Finally, Part Three deals with personal points of view regarding the global, local, and glocal. Grosso modo, the contributors do not only present their case studies, but attempt to demonstrate what insights and added-value explanations they gain from positioning their work vis-à-vis a broader "big picture."
Author / Editor information
S. Conermann, University of Bonn, Germany; Y. Rotman, E. R. Toledano and R. Zelnick-Abramovitz, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Introduction: What is Global about Global Enslavement?
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Slavery and Slaves as “Global and Globalizing”?
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The Ideology of Black Slavery: Philosophical, Juridical, and Theological Accounts by Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Scholastic and Catholic Thinkers on the Justification for Enslaving People and the Continuation of Slavery Systems
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Mobilization as Dependency: The Case of Mitimaes in the Inka State as a Hotspot of Early Glocalization
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Slavery and Religious Violence in the Early Modern Mediterranean: A Regional Perspective
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Between Two Spaces: Enslavement and Labor in the Early Modern Ottoman Navy
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Negotiating Early Modern Transottoman Slaving Zones: An Arab in Moscow
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Family Connections: Slaveholding among African and Afro-descendent Women in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Brazil
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Notes on the Editors
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Notes on the Contributors
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Index
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