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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... book's main themes and examine the crises that unfree labor faced in Russia and the United States South by the middle of the nineteenth century . The crises , though different , both led to emancipation . I conclude by looking ahead to ...
... BOOK's decade - and - a - half gestation period I have built up a large number of intellectual debts that it is now my pleasure to acknowledge . Generous institutional support enabled me to take time off from teaching for research and ...
... book , but in a very real sense he made its existence possible . Editors at Harvard University Press - Aida D. Donald , Elizabeth Suttell , and Peg Anderson - helped transform a rough manuscript into a finished work . It was a pleasure ...
... book ; suffice it to say here that none of them resulted in a more moderate government policy toward the peasantry . As for the delay in codifying serfdom , it was only because urban riots in 1648 led to an extraordinary convening of ...
... book called Slavery as an Industrial System . Noting that slavery rarely existed where a population was dense , Nieboer argued that it could only develop where there existed what he called " open resources , ” by which he meant ...
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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 |