Serfdom and Slavery: Studies in Legal Bondage (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780582291850)

Serfdom and Slavery compares the two forms of legal servitude in cultures in Western civilization, in Europe and the New World from ancient times to the modern period. Within a tightly controlled framework of general contextual chapters followed by specific case studies, a distinguished team of scholars offers 17 specially written essays that illuminate the nature, development, impact and termination of serfdom and slavery in European society. While the case studies range form classical Greece to early modern Brandenburg, and from medieval England to nineteenth-century Russia, the volume as a whole is closely integrated. It makes an important contribution to a topic of increasing international interest.

Author: M. L. Bush
ISBN-10: 0582291852
ISBN-13: 9780582291850
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/20/1996
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.47w x 0.81d