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Gender, Mastery and Slavery: From European to Atlantic World Frontiers
William Foster
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Description for Gender, Mastery and Slavery: From European to Atlantic World Frontiers
Paperback. Series: Gender and History. Num Pages: 196 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KB; HBTS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 7. Weight in Grams: 312.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
Gender and History
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781403987082
SKU
V9781403987082
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About William Foster
WILLIAM HENRY FOSTER is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is a former holder of the Keasbey Fellowship at Selwyn College, Cambridge, UK, and has previously taught American History at Cornell University, USA, and the University of Pennsylvania, USA
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