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Peter Kolchin - Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (Belknap Press) - 9780674920989 - V9780674920989
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Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (Belknap Press)

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Description for Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (Belknap Press) paperback. Num Pages: 534 pages, 4 maps, 2 halftones, 11 tables. BIC Classification: JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 27. Weight in Grams: 749.

Two massive systems of unfree labor arose, a world apart from each other, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The American enslavement of blacks and the Russian subjection of serfs flourished in different ways and varying degrees until they were legally abolished in the mid-nineteenth century. Historian Peter Kolchin compares and contrasts the two systems over time in this magisterial book, which clarifies the organization, structure, and dynamics of both social entities, highlighting their basic similarities while pointing out important differences discernible only in comparative perspective.

These differences involved both the masters and the bondsmen. The independence ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
534
Condition
New
Number of Pages
534
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674920989
SKU
V9780674920989
Shipping Time
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99-1

About Peter Kolchin
Peter Kolchin is Henry Clay Reed Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Delaware and the author of First Freedom: The Response of Alabama’s Blacks to Emancipation and Reconstruction.

Reviews for Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom (Belknap Press)
Comparative history is a tricky business and Unfree Labor succeeds where many previous ventures into this genre have failed.
Richard S. Dunn
Times Literary Supplement
A learned and sophisticated book in the tradition of high scholarship, as well as a book written to be read and enjoyed. Those who share a taste for comparative history will be ... Read more

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