Historicising Ancient Slavery: from historiography to history

Historicising Ancient Slavery: from historiography to history-writing
General works on the historiography of ancient slavery
McKeown, N. (2007) The Invention of Ancient Slavery? London.
Montoya, B. (2011) L’esclavitud en l’economia antiga: evolució i fonaments de la historiografia moderna.
PhD dissertation. Alicante (http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/23656).
Nafissi, M. (2005) Ancient Athens and Modern Ideology. Value, Theory and Evidence in Historical
Sciences: Max Weber, Karl Polanyi and Moses Finley. London.
General works on ancient slavery
Andreau, J. and R. Descat (2006) Esclave en Grèce et à Rome. Paris.
Bradley, K. (1994) Slavery and Society at Rome. Cambridge.
Bradley, K. and P. Cartledge (eds.) (2011) The Cambridge World History of Slavery, Volume I, the
Ancient Mediterranean World. Cambridge.
Fisher, N. R. E. (1993) Slavery in Classical Greece. Bristol.
Garlan, Y. (1988) Slavery in Ancient Greece. Ithaca.
Joshel, S. R. (2010) Slavery in the Roman World. Cambridge.
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What is slavery?
Patterson, O. (1982) Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study. Cambridge, Mass.
Meillassoux, C. (1991) The Anthropology of Slavery: The Womb of Iron and Gold. London.
Turley, D. (2000) Slavery. Oxford and Malden.
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The Enlightenment debate on ancient slavery
Davis, D. B. (1966) The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture, New York.
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Deissler, J. (2000) Antike Sklaverei und Deutsche Aufklärung im Spiegel von Johann Friedrich
Reitemeiers "Geschichte und Zustand der Sklaverey und Leibeigenschaft in Griechenland" 1789.
Stuttgart.
Schneider, H. (1988) ‘Schottische Aufklärung und antike Gesellschaft’ in P. Kneissl and V.
Losemann (eds.) Alte Geschichte und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. Festschrift für Karl Christ zum
65. Geburtstag, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 431-64.
Zimmern, E. A. (1909) ‘Was Greek civilization based on slave labour?’, Sociological Review 2.1:
1-19, 159-76.
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The Humanitarian debate on ancient slavery
Garnsey, P. (1996) Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine. Cambridge.
Vogt, J. (1974) Ancient Slavery and the Ideal of Man. Oxford.
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The Marxist debate on ancient slavery
Ste. Croix, G. E. M. de (1981) The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World. London.
Wood, E. M. (1988). Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy. London
and New York.
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Moses Finley and ancient slavery
Finley, M. I. (1968) ‘Slavery’ in The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, New York: 14:
307-13.
(1973) The Ancient Economy. Berkeley and Los Angeles.
(1980) Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology, London.
(1981) Economy and Society in Ancient Greece. London.
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Hearing the slaves’ voice? Sources for ancient slavery and their
methodological problems
Randall, R. H. (1953) “The Erechteum workmen”, AJA, 57: 199-210.
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Hunt, P. (1998) Slaves, warfare and ideology in the Greek historians. Cambridge.
Schumacher, L. (2001) Sklaverei in der Antike: Alltag und Schicksal der Unfreien. Munich.
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Modalities of slavery
Garnsey, P. (1996) Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine. Cambridge.
Mactoux, M.-M. (1980) Douleia: esclavage et pratiques discursives dans l'Athènes classique. Paris.
Thalmann, W. G. (1996) ‘Versions of slavery in the Captivi of Plautus’, Ramus 25.2: 112-45.
Vlassopoulos, K. (2011a) ‘Greek slavery: from domination to property and back’, Journal of
Hellenic Studies 131: 115-30.
(2011b) ‘Two images of ancient slavery: the “living tool” and the “koinônia”’ in E.
Herrmann-Otto, ed., Sklaverei und Zwangsarbeit zwischen Akzeptanz und Widerstand.
Hildesheim: 467-77.
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Slaving strategies
Aubert, J.-J. (1994) Business Managers in Ancient Rome: A Social and Economic Study of Institores,
200 B.C.-A.D. 250. Leiden.
Cohen, E. E. (1992) Athenian Economy and Society: A Banking Perspective. Princeton and Oxford.
Forbes, C. A. (1955) ‘The education and training of slaves in antiquity’, Transactions and
Proceedings of the American Philological Association 86: 321-60.
Jameson, M. H. (1977-8) ‘Agriculture and slavery in Classical Athens’, Classical Journal 73:
122-45.
Jongman, W. (2003) ‘Slavery and the growth of Rome. The transformation of Italy in the
second and first centuries BCE’ in C. Edwards and G. Woolf (eds.) Rome the
Cosmopolis, Cambridge: 100-22.
Osborne, R. (1995) ‘The economics and politics of slavery at Athens’ in A. Powell, ed., The
Greek World. London: 27-43.
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Slave dialectiques: the master-slave dialectique
Genovese, E. D. (1974) Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, New York.
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Johnson, W. (2003) ‘On agency’, Journal of Social History 37: 113-24.
Klees, H. (1975) Herren und Sklaven. Die Sklaverei im oikonomischen und politischen Schrifttum der
Griechen in klassischer Zeit, Wiesbaden.
Morris, C. (1998) ‘The articulation of two worlds: the master-slave relationship’, Journal of
American History 85: 982-1007.
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Slave dialectiques: the free-slave dialectique
Luraghi, N. (2002) ‘Helotic slavery reconsidered’ in A. Powell and S. Hodkinson (eds.)
Sparta: Beyond the Mirage, Swansea: 227-48.
(2009), ‘The helots: comparative approaches, ancient and modern’, in S. Hodkinson
(ed.) Sparta: Comparative Approaches, Swansea: 261-304.
Vlassopoulos, K. (2009) ‘Slavery and citizenship in classical Athens: beyond a legalistic
approach’, European Review of History 16.3: 347-63.
Wood, E. M. (1988) Peasant-Citizen and Slave: The Foundations of Athenian Democracy, London
and New York.
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Slave dialectiques: the dialectique of the slave community
Bömer, F. (1981-90) Untersuchungen über die Religion der Sklaven in Griechenland und Rom, I-IV.
Stuttgart.
Kolchin, P. (1983) ‘Reevaluating the antebellum slave community: A comparative
perspective’, Journal of American History 70: 579-601.
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Comparative approaches to ancient slavery
Bastide, R. (1978) The African Religions of Brazil: Toward a Sociology of the Interpenetration of
Civilization. Baltimore.
Berlin, I. (1998) Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America.
Cambridge, MA.
Kiddy, E. W. (2005) Blacks of the Rosary. Memory and History in Minas Gerais. University Park,
PA.
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