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By Keith Bradley,Paul Cartledge

ISBN-10: 052184066X

ISBN-13: 9780521840668

quantity 1 within the new Cambridge international historical past of Slavery surveys the historical past of slavery within the historic Mediterranean international. even though chapters are dedicated to the traditional close to East and the Jews, its valuable quandary is with the societies of historic Greece and Rome. those are frequently regarded as the 1st examples in international background of real slave societies as a result of the frequent occurrence of chattel slavery, that is argued to were a cultural manifestation of the ever present violence in societies typified by way of incessant struggle. there has been by no means any sustained competition to slavery, and the recent faith of Christianity most likely bolstered instead of challenged its lifestyles. In twenty-two chapters, prime students discover the centrality of slavery in old Mediterranean lifestyles utilizing quite a lot of textual and fabric facts. Non-specialist readers particularly will locate the amount an obtainable account of the early historical past of this important phenomenon.

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