Gender, Mastery and Slavery

Gender, Mastery and Slavery

Author: William Foster

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2009-12-18

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1350307432

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Gender, family and sexual relations defined human slavery from its classical origins in Europe to the rise and fall of race-based slavery in the Americas. Gender, Mastery and Slavery is one of the first books to explore the importance of men and women to slaveholding across these eras. Foster argues that at the heart of the successive European institutions of slavery at home and in the New World was the volatile question of women's ability to exert mastery. Facing the challenge to play the 'good mother' in public and private, free women from Rome to Muslim North Africa, to the indigenous tribes of North America, to the antebellum plantations of the southern United States found themselves having to economically manage slaves, servants and captives. At the same time, they had to protect their reputations from various forms of attack and themselves from vilification on a number of fronts. With the recurrent cultural wars over the maternal role within slavery touching the worlds of politics, warfare, religion, and colonial and imperial rivalries, this lively comparative survey is essential reading for anyone studying, or simply interested in, this key topic in global and gender history.


Book Auction Records

Book Auction Records

Author: Frank Karslake

Publisher:

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 662

ISBN-13:

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A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.


Civilizing Rio

Civilizing Rio

Author: Teresa A. Meade

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780271042114

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"Conflicts during the Old Republic between Rio de Janeiro's lower orders and their employers, the transit companies, and the state about the effects of 'modernization' resulted in many losses, but also a few victories for the poor. Such popular protests have been marginalized by a historiography that tends to label them 'pre-modern' and to privilege workplace organization and protest over community protest"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.


The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts

The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts

Author: OlĂ­via Maria Gomes da Cunha

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-05-18

Total Pages: 772

ISBN-13: 9004429301

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The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts deals with the things mainly, but not only, mobilized by anthropologists in order to produce knowledge about the African American, the Afro-Brazilian and the Afro-Cuban during the 1930s.