Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age - Couverture souple

 
9780300109009: Arming Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0300109008 ISBN 13 : 9780300109009
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book is the first to survey the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the early Islamic kingdoms of the Near East, West and East Africa, the British and French Caribbean, the United States, and Latin America. To facilitate cross-cultural comparisons, each chapter addresses four crucial issues: the social and cultural facts regarding the arming of slaves, the experience of slave soldiers, the ideological origins and consequences of equipping enslaved peoples for battle, and the impact of the practice on the status of slaves and slavery itself. What emerges from the book is a new historical understanding: the arming of slaves is neither uncommon nor paradoxical but is instead both predictable and explicable.

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À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Leslie Brown is associate professor of history at Rutgers University. Philip D. Morgan holds The Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professorship in the American Revolutionary Era at Princeton University.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300109008
ISBN 13 
9780300109009
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
368
Éditeur
Brown Christopher Leslie, Morgan Philip D.
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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