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Democracy’s Slaves
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 201

Democracy’s Slaves

Challenging the modern belief that democracy and bondage are incompatible, Paulin Ismard directs our attention to ancient Athens, where the functioning of civic government depended on skilled, knowledgeable experts who were literally public servants—slaves owned by the city-state rather than by private citizens.

友爱共同体:古希腊政治思想研究
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 443

友爱共同体:古希腊政治思想研究

本书聚焦古风和古典希腊政治思想,系统考察了政治共同体创生和演进过程中的理论反思。通过对戏剧、历史、哲学等多种性质文本的细致研究,论证了政治与内乱构成古风以降希腊城邦发展的主线,而友爱共同体则是贯穿希腊政治思想的核心关切。

Hypothèses 2005
  • Language: fr
  • Pages: 406

Hypothèses 2005

Pour sa neuvième livraison, Hypothèses 2005 rassemble les contributions de jeunes historiens appartenant aux différentes formations de l'École doctorale d'histoire de l'université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, présentées lors de ses quatre séminaires annuels. N'ignorant rien des principes généraux des sciences sociales, les études de cas abordent, dans une perspective chronologique et géographique large, quelques grands problèmes historiques longtemps discutés ou plus récemment posés. " L'appropriation du territoire par les communautés " et, "Instituer la communauté" soulignent avec acuité combien la notion de communauté, dans ses relations avec le territoire qu'elle invest...

Writing the History of Global Slavery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 74

Writing the History of Global Slavery

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-11-29
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This Element shows that existing models of global slavery derived from sociology and modelled closely on antebellum American slavery being normative should be replaced a global slavery that is less American and more global. It argues that we can understand the global history of slavery if we connect it more closely to another important world institution - empires in ways that historicise the study of history as an institution with a history that changes over time and space. Moreover, we can learn from scholars of modern slavery and use more than we do the enormous proliferation of usable sources about the lives, experiences and thoughts of the enslaved, from ancient to modern times, to make these voices of the enslaved crucial drivers of how we conceptualise and describe the varied kinds of global slavery in world history. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900–1900
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 472

Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900–1900

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-11-29
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Slavery in the Black Sea Region, c.900–1900 explores the Black Sea region as an encounter zone of cultures, legal regimes, religions, and enslavement practices. The topics discussed in the chapters include Byzantine slavery, late medieval slave trade patterns, slavery in Christian societies, Tatar and cossack raids, the position of Circassians in the slave trade, and comparisons with the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. This volume aims to stimulate a broader discussion on the patterns of unfreedom in the Black Sea area and to draw attention to the importance of this region in the broader debates on global slavery. Contributors are: Viorel Achim, Michel Balard, Hannah Barker, Andrzej Gliwa, Colin Heywood, Sergei Pavlovich Karpov, Mikhail Kizilov, Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Maryna Kravets, Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska, Sandra Origone, Victor Ostapchuk, Daphne Penna, Felicia Roșu, and Ehud R. Toledano.

Image, Text, Stone
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 382

Image, Text, Stone

  • Categories: Art

This edited volume explores the intermediality of image and text in Graeco-Roman sculpture. Through its choice of authors, disciplinary backgrounds are deliberately merged in order to bridge the traditional gap between archaeologists, epigraphists and philologists, who for a long time studied statues, material inscriptions and literary epigrams within the closely confined borders of their individual disciplines. Through its choice of objects, privileging works of which there are significant material remains, through its inclusion of all kinds of figural-cum-inscriptional designs, ranging from grand sculpture to reliefs and ‘decorative’ marble-objects, and through its methodological empha...

Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 385

Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece

Citizenship is a major feature of contemporary politics, but rather than being a modern phenomenon it is in fact a legacy of ancient Greece. Focusing on the archaic period and its cities, this volume challenges the narrow Aristotelian model of citizenship and provides instead a wide range of insights and methodological approaches to the topic.

Animality and Humanity in French Late Modern Representations of Black Femininity
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Animality and Humanity in French Late Modern Representations of Black Femininity

  • Categories: Art

This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global North’s destructive relationship with the natural world. Drawing on a broad spectrum of archives extending back to the late 18th century – paintings, fashion plates, prints, photographs, and films – this study traces the intricate ways a patriarchal imperialism and a global capitalism have paired black women with the realm of nature to justify the exploitation both of people and of ecosystems. These dehumanizing and speciesist strategies of subjugation have perpetuated interlocking patterns of social injustice and environmental depletion that constitute the most salient challenges facing humankind today. Through a novel approach that merges visual studies, critical race theory, and animal studies, this interdisciplinary investigation historicizes the evolution of the boundaries between human and non-human animals during the modern period. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, critical race theory, colonial and post-colonial studies, animal studies, and French studies.

Historiographies of Philosophy 1800–1950
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Historiographies of Philosophy 1800–1950

This volume discusses ways in which the history of philosophy has been written, from 1800 to 1950, and how it has been informed and guided by institutional, cultural, political, philosophical, and non-philosophical factors. Since its inception as a discipline, histories of philosophy have been written in different ways, depending on author, place, and time; they have varied according to institutional frameworks, cultural settings, and philosophical and non-philosophical contexts. At each stage of the discipline’s development and evolution, philosophy has constantly used the history of philosophy for its own purposes by adapting it, transforming it, rejecting it, embracing it, and rewriting...

From Homer to Solon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 502

From Homer to Solon

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-05-02
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Under the headings "Approaching Early-Archaic Greece," "Citizens and Citizen-States", and "Leaders and Reformers" the volume offers a wide range of studies that circle around the central problem of continuity and change in Archaic Greece.