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Speaking of Slavery Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy

Name: Speaking of Slavery
Author: Steven A. (Professor Of History, University Of Colorado, Usa) Epstein

Auteur: Steven A. Epstein

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Steven A. Epstein Steven A. (Professor Of History, University Of Colorado, Usa) Epstein

Engels
Hardcover
9780801438486
18 januari 2001
234 pagina's

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The language of slavery is the last but steep price any society must pay for having tolerated the institution and profited from it.... The hypocrisies, the racism, the sexism, the brutality bound up with the daily practice of slavery live on in...

In this highly original work, Steven A. Epstein shows that the ways Italians employ words and think about race and labor are profoundly affected by the language used in medieval Italy to sustain a system of slavery. The author's findings about the surprising persistence of the "language of slavery" demonstrate the difficulty of escaping the legacy of a shameful past.

For Epstein, language is crucial to understanding slavery, for it preserves the hidden conditions of that institution. He begins his book by discussing the words used to conduct and describe slavery in Italy, from pertinent definitions given in early dictionaries, to the naming of slaves by their masters, to the ways in which bondage has been depicted by Italian writers from Dante to Primo Levi and Antonio Gramsci. Epstein then probes Italian legal history, tracing the evolution of contracts for buying, selling, renting, and freeing people. Next he considers the behaviors of slaves and slave owners as a means of exploring how concepts of liberty and morality changed over time. He concludes by analyzing the language of the market, where medieval Italians used words to fix the prices of people they bought and sold.

The first history of slavery in Italy ever published, Epstein's work has important implications for other societies, particularly America's. "For too long," Epstein notes, "Americans have studied their own slavery as it if were the only one ever to have existed, as if it were the archetype of all others." His book allows citizens of the United States and other former slave-holding nations a richer understanding of their past and present.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 18 januari 2001
Aantal pagina's: 234
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Hoofdauteur: Steven A. Epstein
Tweede Auteur: Steven A. (Professor Of History, University Of Colorado, Usa) Epstein
Hoofduitgeverij: Cornell University Press

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 152 mm
Product lengte: 229 mm
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Verpakking breedte: 152 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 229 mm
Verpakking lengte: 229 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 499 g

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

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Geschiedenis

Sociale & Ethische kwesties

Sociale groepen

Sociologie

Taalwetenschap

Europa

Discriminatie

Etnische studies

Sociale theorie

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Taal: Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Land: Italie
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar

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