Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-359) and index.
Contents:
Spartiates, helots, and the direction of the agrarian economy: toward an understanding of helotage in comparative perspective / Stephen Hodkinson. Slavery, gender, and work in the pre-modern world and early Greece : a cross-cultural analysis / Orlando Patterson -- Slaving as historical process : examples from the ancient Mediterranean and the modern Atlantic / Joseph C. Miller -- The comparative economics of slavery in the Greco-Roman world / Walter Scheidel -- Slavery and technology in pre-industrial contexts / Tracey Rihll -- Comparing or interlinking? : economic comparisons of early nineteenth-century slave systems in the Americas in historical perspective / Michael Zeuske -- Ideal models of slave management in the Roman world and in the ante-bellum American South / Enrico Dal Lago and Constantina Katsari -- Panis, disciplina, et opus servo : the Jesuit ideology in Portuguese America and Greco-Roman ideas of slavery / Rafael de Bivar Marquese and Fábio Duarte Joly -- Processes of exiting the slave systems : a typology / Olivier Pétré-Grenouilleau -- Emancipation schemes : different ways of ending slavery / Stanley Engerman -- Spartiates, helots, and the direction of the agrarian economy: toward an understanding of helotage in comparative perspective / Stephen Hodkinson.
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