“…Their collision of worlds helped connect East and West, launching a tempestuous period of globalisation spanning from the Chinese opium trade to the slave trade in the Americas.Drawing on rich, original sources, Lubaaba Al-Azami traces the origins of a relationship between two nations - one outsider and one superpower - whose cultures remain inextricably linked to this day" -- Contracubierta…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…On gender, history ... and fiction / Marilyn Booth -- Will that subaltern ever speak? Finding African slaves in the historiography of the Middle East / Eve M. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Hendrickson -- America and the other revolutions : neutrality and non-engagement in Latin America and Greece / Yannis Stivachtis -- The United States, the monroe doctrine and international society / Paul Sharp -- Slaves, Indians, and European legal formalism in 19th century America / Christopher R. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…From the Revolution to the middle of the nineteenth century : 1776-1850 -- The republic of bees -- Outposts of the law : the frontier and the civil-law fringe -- Law and the economy : 1776-1850 -- The law of personal status : wives, paupers, and slaves -- An American law of property -- The law of commerce and trade -- Crime and punishment : and a footnote on tort -- The bar and its works -- III. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Froide -- Transatlantic ties : women's writings in Iberia and the Americas / Lisa Vollendorf -- Prophets and helpers : African American women and the rise of black Christianity in the age of the slave trade / Jon Sensbach -- 'The most resplendent flower of the Indies' : making saints and constructing whiteness in colonial Peru / Rachel Sarah O'Toole -- Missionary men and the global currency of female sanctity / J. …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Materialien -- Staatliche Strukturen im Reich der Maitrakas von Valabhī / Donations Called Deposits, or, The Malla State and Private Rituals / The Institution of Slavery in Nepal and its Analysis Based on the Dharmaśāstras -- Six 15th- and 16th-century Deeds from Tirhut Recording the Purchase of Slaves / V. Interpretationen -- Women, Law and the State in Classical India / Die maṇḍala-Theorie im Artha- und Nītiśāstra / Some Observations on the Political Functions of Copper-Plate Grants in Early Medieval India / Überlegungen zu atavī und anderen Gruppen der Anārya-Bevölkerung im alten Indien nach Sanskritquellen / Wortregister -- Sachregister -- Backmatter…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Indentured Labour / 4.5. Slave Labour / 4.6. Wage Labour / 5. Attitudes To Work / 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter Nine: African American Families: Still a Band of Slaves?Chapter Ten: Personality Development in Different African American Cultures; Chapter Eleven: Hollywood and African Americans; 4: Clinical Strands; Chapter Twelve: An African American's Becoming a Psychoanalyst: Some Personal Reflections; Chapter Thirteen: The African-American Patient in Psychodynamic Treatment; Chapter Fourteen: Racial Transference Reactions in Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Update; Chapter Fifteen: White Analysts Seeing Black Patients; Chapter Sixteen: Racial Enactments in Dynamic Treatment; References; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…16 Dynamic-structure17 Continuous-rotation; 18 In a spin: Continuous-rotation continued; 19 Bottoms-up: Script-violation; 20 Rotation around an axis; 21 Rhythm; 22 A new kind of desire; 23 Deep structure; 24 The image; 25 Shapes of things to come; 26 The dynamic knot; 27 Drawing and writing; 28 Description; 29 The scratch; 30 Agon; 31 Dying slave; 32 Sack-cloth and ashes; 33 Ida draws; Conclusion; References; Author index; Subject index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Hanawalt -- The village ale-wife : women and brewing in fourteenth-century England / Judith M. Bennett -- Slaves and domestic servants. To town to serve : urban domestic slavery in Medieval Ragusa / Susan Mosher Stuard -- Women servants in Florence during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / Christiane Klapisch-Zuber -- Occupations related to female biology : wet nurses and midwives. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…How it all began: from Macedonia to the oecumene (356-323 BC) -- The successors: adventurers and architects of kingdoms (323-275 BC) -- 'Old' Greece in the short third century: struggles for survival, freedom and hegemony (279-217 BC) -- The Ptolemaic golden age (283-217 BC) -- Kings and kingdoms -- The city-state in a world of federations and empires -- Entanglement: the coming of Rome (221-188 BC) -- The Greek states become Roman provinces (188-129 BC) -- Decline and fall of the Hellenistic kingdoms in Asia and Egypt (188-80 BC) -- A battlefield of foreign ambitions (88-30 BC) -- A Roman east: local histories and their global context (30 BC-AD 138) -- Emperors, cities and provinces from Augustus to Hadrian (30 BC-AD 138) -- Emperors, cities and provinces from Augustus to Hadrian (30 BC-AD 138) -- Socio-economic conditions: from Greek cities to an 'ecumenical' network -- Social and cultural trends: benefactors, confrères, ephebes, athletes, women and slaves --From civic worship to megatheism: religions in a cosmopolitan world -- The Greeks and the oecumene…”

“…The archaeological record-which preserves traces of slave households, waterways, boiling houses, mills, and vessels for storing water-reveals changes in political authority and in how social relations were mediated through the environment. …”

“…"Moses Maimonides' On Coitus was composed at the request of an unknown high-ranking official who asked for a regimen that would be easy to adhere to, and that would increase his sexual potency, as he had a large number of slave girls. It is safe to assume that it was popular in Jewish and non-Jewish circles, as it survives in several manuscripts, both in Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic. …”

“…Contemporary art seeks to bamboozle its viewers while being the willing slave of business and government. This book is your antidote and will change the way you see contemporary art…”
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“…Within this expansive geographical playing field, the ambitions of four powerful Mediterranean dynasts would collide. While the slave-boy-turned-sultan Baybars of Egypt and the saint-king Louis IX of France waged a bitter battle for Syria, al-Mustansir of Tunis and Louis's younger brother Charles of Anjou struggled for control of the Sicilian Straits. …”

“…The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. …”

“…"Groundbreaking look at slaves as commodities through every phase of life, from birth to death and beyond, in early America The Price for Their Pound of Flesh is the first book to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives--including from before birth to after death--in the American domestic slave trades. …”

“…And in Africa, the company states were first key intermediaries in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and later the colonial vanguards of the 'scramble for Africa.' …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Metaphorology and narratology in Q exegesis: literary methodology as an aid to understanding the Q text / The construction of a metaphor: reading domestic space in Q / Q and family ties / Children and slaves: the metaphors of Q / Conceptualizing justice in Q: narrative and context / Die protreptische, konnotative und performative Valeur der Gerichts- und Abgrenzungsmetaphorik in der Logienquelle / The narrative of Jesus as the narrative of God in Q / Was "Lücken" berichten: exemplarische Beobachtungen zu narrativen "gaps" in Q / Q 7,1.3.6b-9.?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Intellectual History and Helsinki: Editorial Introduction -- 1 The State of Intellectual History: Local and Global -- 2 Inventing “Humanity”: Early-Modern Perspectives -- 3 Human Rights and their Realisation in the World: Herder’s Debate with Kant -- 4 Pierre Gassendi and the Humanist Case for a Vegetarian Diet -- 5 Enlightenment Historical Writing and the Expulsion of England’s Jews -- 6 The Encyclopedism of the Russian Enlightenment in the History of Ideas -- 7 David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and the Possibility of an Inclusive Moral Dialogue -- 8 Neither Citizens nor Slaves: The Aporetic Condition of Modern Citizenship -- Preface: Kari Saastamoinen – An Appreciation -- 9 The Problem of Sociability after Hobbes: Pufendorf and Locke on the Politics of Recognition -- 10 Pierre Nicole and amour-propre -- 11 Hutcheson’s Ambivalence about the Passions: Must Virtue and Fittingness Come Apart? …”