Gender, mastery and slavery: from european to atlantic world frontiers

This lively survey of a key topic explores the importance of women and men toslaveholding, from antiquity to the rise and fall of slavery in the Americas.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. INDICE: Acknowledgements - Introduction: The Problem of Gender, Mastery and Slavery - Gender, Mastery and Maternalism: Christian, Muslim and Hebrew Traditions - Gender, Mastery and Frontier: Europe, North Africa and Natvie America- Gender, Mastery and Empire: White Servitude in New Worlds - Gender, Masteryand Nation: Race and Slavery in the United States - Conclusion - Notes - Bibliography - Index

• ISBN: 978-1-4039-8708-2
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 200
• Fecha Publicación: 18/12/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés