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Writing the history of slavery / edited by David Stefan Doddington and Enrico Dal Lago.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Writing historyPublication details: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.Description: xii, 462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781474285582
  • 9781474285575
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Writing the history of slaveryDDC classification:
  • 306.362 23 DOD
Contents:
Part I: Global approaches 1 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)
Summary: "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"--
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 446) and index.

Part I: Global approaches
1 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)

"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"--

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