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"Most societies in the past have had slaves, and almost all peoples have at some time in their pasts been both slaves as well as owners of slaves. Recent decades have seen a significant increase in our understanding of the historical role played by slavery and wide interest across a range of academic disciplines in the evolution of the institution. Exciting and innovative research methodologies have been developed, and numerous fruitful debates generated. Further, the study of slavery has come to provide strong connections between academic research and the wider public interest at a time when such links have in general been weak. The CambridgeWorld History of Slavery responds to these trends by providing for the first time, in four volumes, a comprehensive global history of this widespread phenomenon from the ancient world to the present day. Volume I surveys the history of slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world. Although chapters are devoted to the ancient Near East and the Jews, its principal concern is with the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. These are often considered as the first examples in world history of genuine slave societies because of the widespread prevalenc

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Author

David Eltis; Stanley L. Engerman; Keith R. Bradley; Paul Cartledge; Seymour Drescher

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780511975400

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Social Science

Rating

4.3 / 5 (8 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14