Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian SerfdomHarvard University Press, 1 Mar 1990 - 534 halaman 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. |
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... economic roles in the development of the two countries . * * THE ESTABLISHMENT of these labor systems can be approached on two levels , the specific and the general . Concrete historical circumnstances produced serfdom in Russia ; a ...
... economic potential of newly acquired lands in the Americas . At the same time , an upsurge of economic activity and internal colonization in eastern European countries from the Baltic to the Ukraine led to the reenserfment of a ...
... economic upturn that accelerated during the first half of the sixteenth century . Agricultural production increased , new cities burgeoned , trade and small - scale artisanry flourished . A strong , centralized government facilitated ...
... economic crisis that lasted a half - century and fundamentally altered relations between landlords and peasants . The Livonian war , a twenty - fiveyear struggle with Lithuania , Poland , and Sweden launched by Ivan IV ( 1533-84 ) in ...
... economic collapse . Agricultural production declined sharply , and large numbers of people were simply unable to support themselves . Foreign travelers who until the 1560s had described a prosperous society now told a very different ...
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PART II The Bondsmen and Their Masters | 193 |
The Crisis of Unfree Labor | 359 |
Bibliographical Note | 377 |
Notes | 385 |
Index | 505 |