Slavery in the Caribbean Francophone World: Distant Voices, Forgotten Acts, Forged Identities by Doris Y. KadishRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.72 MBOverview: Twelve scholars representing a variety of academic fields contribute to this study of slavery in the French Caribbean colonies, which ranges historically from the 1770s to Haiti’s declaration of independent statehood in 1804. Including essays […]
Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE edited by Chris L. De Wet, Ville Vuolanto, Maijastina KahlosRequirements: .PDF reader, 4 MBOverview: Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150 – 700 CE investigates the ideological, moral, cultural, and symbolic aspects of slavery, as well the living conditions of slaves in the Mediterranean basin […]
Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature: Captivity Genres from Cervantes to Rousseau (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature) by Mario KlarerRequirements: .PDF reader, 38 MBOverview: Mediterranean Slavery and World Literature is a collection of selected essays about the transformations of captivity experiences in major early modern texts of world literature and popular media, including works by Cervantes, […]
The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 2, AD 500–AD 1420 by Craig PerryRequirements: .PDF reader, 5 MBOverview: Medieval slavery has received little attention relative to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the early modern Atlantic world. This imbalance in the scholarship has led many to assume that slavery was of minor importance […]
Remaking Ukraine after World War II: The Clash of Local and Central Soviet Power by Filip SlaveskiRequirements: .ePUB reader, 6.10 MbOverview: Ukraine was liberated from German wartime occupation by 1944 but remained prisoner to its consequences for much longer. This study examines Soviet Ukraine’s transition from war to ‘peace’ in the long aftermath of World […]