(COMPLETE 4 VOL SET) The Cambridge World History of Slavery, Complete in Four Volumes: Volume 1: The Ancient Mediterranean World; Volume 2: AD 500—AD 1420; Volume 3: AD 1420—AD 1804; Volume 4: AD 1804—AD 2016
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, 2021, 2011, 2017.
Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xi, 620pp; x, 591pp; .xiii, 762pp; xvii, 705pp. Volumes 1, 3, and 4 are stated first editions and are bound in black paper over boards, spines lettered in gilt, with dust jackets showing only mild shelfwear. Volume 2 is a hardcover reprint, bound in glossy pictorial paper over boards, with no dust jacket, as issued. Moderate wear to bindings, with occasional bumping to heads and tails of spines and corners and gentle rubbing to edges. Bindings are firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very presentable hardcover set, complete in 4 volumes, of TThe Cambridge World History of Slavery.
This set is complete in 4 volumes and includes:
Volume 1: The Ancient Mediterranean World;
Volume 2: AD 500—AD 1420;
Volume 3: AD 1420—AD 1804;
Volume 4: AD 1804—AD 2016.
Publisher description: Volume 1 in the new Cambridge World History of Slavery 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 prevalence of chattel slavery, which is argued to have been a cultural manifestation of the ubiquitous violence in societies typified by incessant warfare. There was never any sustained opposition to slavery, and the new religion of Christianity probably reinforced rather than challenged its existence. In twenty-two chapters, leading scholars explore the centrality of slavery in ancient Mediterranean life using a wide range of textual and material evidence. Non-specialist readers in particular will find the volume an accessible account of the early history of this crucial phenomenon.
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ISBN: 9780521840668
Price: $800.00