Author | : Orlando Patterson |
File Size | : 49,7 Mb |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 15 October 2018 |
ISBN | : 9780674916135 |
Pages | : 528 pages |
Slavery and Social Death by Orlando Patterson Book PDF Summary
In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South.