Gender, mastery and slavery
Subtitle: from European to Atlantic world frontiers
By: William Henry Foster
Series: Gender and history; Gender and history (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781403987075; 9781403987082
Description: "Bill Foster's clear survey of this lively field provides a critical overview of current scholarship. Taking a thematic and comparative approach to fit with course needs, Foster couples case studies from the Americas with comparative perspectives from the ancient and medieval worlds, the Pacific and the Christian-Muslim slave frontier"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 164-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the problem of gender, mastery and slavery; title: Gender, mastery, and maternalism : Christian, Muslim and Hebrew traditions; title: Gender, mastery and frontier : Europe, North Africa and native America; title: Gender, mastery and empire : white servitude in new worlds; title: Gender, mastery and nation : race and slavery in the United States.