Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, With a New Preface - Orlando Patterson
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Winner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association Co-Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South. Densely packed, closely argued, and highly controversial in its dissent from much of the scholarly conventional wisdom about the function and structure of slavery worldwide.- Boston Globe There can be no doubt that this rich and learned book will reinvigorat ... Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, With a New Preface - Orlando Patterson Libris [ continua sa citesti.. ]