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Slavery and Human Progress - Hardcover

Davis, David Brion

 
9780195034394: Slavery and Human Progress
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195034392 ISBN 13: 9780195034394
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 1984

Inhaltsangabe

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Brion Davis here provides a penetrating survey of slavery and emancipation from ancient times to the twentieth century. His trenchant analysis puts the most recent international debates about freedom and human rights into much-needed perspective. Davis shows that
slavery was once regarded as a form of human progress, playing a critical role in the expansion of the western world. It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that views of slavery as a retrograde institution gained far-reaching acceptance. Davis illuminates this momentous
historical shift from "progressive" enslavement to "progressive" emancipation, ranging over an array of important developments--from the slave trade of early Muslims and Jews to twentieth-century debates over slavery in the League of Nations and the United Nations. In probing the intricate
connections among slavery, emancipation, and the idea of progress, Davis sheds new light on two crucial issues: the human capacity for dignifying acts of oppression and the problem of implementing social change.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1984
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0195034392
ISBN 13 
9780195034394
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
394
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