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Unfree Lives
Unfree Lives illuminates Yemen’s forgotten history of slavery, as well as the transregional dimensions of slave trading in the Red Sea and wider Indian Ocean world. By analyzing Arabic narrative and administrative sources, Magdalena Moorthy Kloss reconstructs the lives of women and men who were trafficked to Yemen as children and then placed in various subaltern positions — from domestic servant to royal concubine, from quarryman to army commander. In this first in-depth study of unfree lives in Yemen, Moorthy Kloss argues that slaves and former slaves made significant contributions to social, economic and political processes in the medieval period. She highlights the gendered nature of slavery through a nuanced examination of the social identities of eunuchs and concubines. Unfree Lives also includes detailed information on slave trading between the Horn of Africa and Yemen in the 13th century, as well as an account of the little-known Najahid dynasty that was founded by Ethiopian slaves.
The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 2, AD 500–AD 1420
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 in the Middle Ages. In fact, the practice of slavery continued unabated across the globe throughout the medieval millennium. This volume – the final volume in The Cambridge World History of Slavery – covers the period between the fall of Rome and the rise of the transatlantic plantation complexes by assembling twenty-three original essays, written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. The volume demonstrates the continual and central presence of slavery in societies worldwide between 500 CE and 1420 CE. The essays analyze key concepts in the history of slavery, including gender, trade, empire, state formation and diplomacy, labor, childhood, social status and mobility, cultural attitudes, spectrums of dependency and coercion, and life histories of enslaved people.
Les sociétés africaines et le monde : une histoire connectée (1900-1980)
Loin des affaires du monde, isolée et repliée sur elle-même, pauvre, naïve, n’entrant dans l’Histoire avec un grand -H que par défaut, celle des multiples dominations extérieures subies, depuis les traites négrières jusqu’à la colonisation européenne des XIXe et XXe siècles. Voilà comment l’Afrique a été longtemps perçue et l’est encore en partie aujourd’hui. Pourtant, l’histoire de l’Afrique est d’une incroyable richesse tout au long du XXe siècle, et, mieux encore, elle est au cœur des processus mondiaux, permettant ainsi de multiples formes de connexions entre les sociétés africaines et le monde. La question mise au programme, couvrant la période alla...
The Other Abyssinians
Reframes the story of modern Ethiopia around the contributions of the Oromo people and the culturally fluid union of communities that shaped the nation's politics and society.
A Cultural History of Genocide
Volume 1. A cultural history of genocide in the ancient world / edited by Tristan S. Taylor -- volume 2. A cultural history of genocide in the middle ages / edited by Melodie H. Eichbauer -- volume 3. A cultural history of genocide in the early modern world / edited by Igor Pérez Tostado -- volume 4. A cultural history of genocide in the long nineteenth century / edited by David A. Meola -- volume 5. A cultural history of genocide in the era of total war / edited by Elisa von Joeden-Fogey -- volume 6. A cultural history of genocide in the modern world / edited by Deborah Mayersen.
Historia de Etiopía
Con cerca de tres mil años de historia, Etiopía es una de las grandes civilizaciones del continente africano y del mundo. En esta obra se presentan los hechos más destacados de su epopeya, comenzando con el próspero reino de Aksum y su dominio de la región durante la Edad Antigua. El Medievo etíope observó el auge de las dinastías Zagwe y Salomónica, que rivalizaron con los sultanatos, como el de Ifat o el de Bar Sa’ad ad-din. Las guerras del imam Ahmad dieron paso a la gran emigración oromo y la llegada de los jesuitas al país, que tanta influencia dejaron en el período gondarino pese a su expulsión. En el siglo XIX, la victoria de Menelik II sobre los italianos de Adua supuso la reunificación del país, convirtiéndose en un icono para los pueblos negros del mundo.Tras un siglo XX convulso marcado por el reinado de Haile Selassie y la larga guerra civil, Etiopía encara el futuro con un notable crecimiento económico, pero el desequilibrio en el reparto de la riqueza y las luchas de poder están generando graves conflictos sociales e interétnicos. Actualmente, la guerra de Tigray amenaza la unidad del país y el proyecto panetíope Medemer del Gobierno central.
Tales Things Tell
"How can we understand the past in the absence of written records? Pre-modern histories of cross-cultural exchange pose a particular problem for medieval historians. They are marked by the long-distance mobility of concepts, individuals, and materials, and many of them cannot be reconstructed from the standard source texts on which historians usually depend. They exist without named makers, both outside and beyond official documents and court chronicles. The same is true of artisans responsible for crafting objects whose circulation and reception defined aesthetic, economic, and technological networks that may not have conformed to political or sectarian boundaries. Authored by two leading m...
La Conquête de l'Éthiopie - Un jihad au XVIe siècle
L'histoire médiévale et moderne de l'Éthiopie et de sa région a longtemps été écrite en prenant pour source et pour cadre la tradition scripturaire des moines orthodoxes : celle d'un royaume chrétien dont les origines légendaires remonteraient au roi Salomon et à la reine de Saba. En plaçant au cœur de l'analyse le Futūh· al-H·abasha, un manuscrit du XVIe siècle rédigé par un auteur musulman surnommé Arab Faqīh (" le Juriste arabe "), cet ouvrage propose un profond changement de perspective. Le Futūh· al-H·abasha est le récit épique du début de la conquête du royaume chrétien, au cours des années 1530, par les armées du sultanat du Barr Sa'd ad-Dīn placées sou...
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History
This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout history. To understand slavery - why it developed, and how it functioned in various societies – is to understand an important and widespread practice in world civilisations. With research traditionally being dominated by the Atlantic world, this collection aims to illuminate slavery that existed in not only the Americas but also ancient, medieval, North and sub-Saharan African, Near Eastern, and Asian societies. Connecting civilisations through migration, warfare, trade routes and economic expansion, the practice of slavery integrated countries and regions through power-based rel...
Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery
Rethinking the history of African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens of Iranian cinema From the East African and Red Sea coasts to the Persian Gulf ports of Bushihr, Kish, and Hurmuz, sailing and caravan networks supplied Iran and the surrounding regions with African slave labor from antiquity to the nineteenth century. This book reveals how Iranian cinema preserves the legacy of this vast and yet long-overlooked history that has come to be known as Indian Ocean slavery. How does a focus on blackness complicate traditional understandings of history and culture? Parisa Vaziri addresses this question by looking at residues of the Indian Ocean slave trade in Iranian films ...
