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Book Thraldom in Ancient Iceland

Download or read book Thraldom in Ancient Iceland written by Carl Oscar Williams and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thraldom in Ancient Iceland

Download or read book Thraldom in Ancient Iceland written by Carl O. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thraldom

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  • Author : Stefan Brink
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2021-09-10
  • ISBN : 0197532373
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book Thraldom written by Stefan Brink and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nordic slavery is an elusive phenomenon, with few similarities to the systematic exploitation of slaves in households, mines, and amphitheaters in the ancient Mediterranean or the widespread slavery at American plantations during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scandinavians in the early Middle Ages lived in a society foreign to us, characterized by different and shifting social statuses. A person could be at once socially respected and unfree. It was possible to hand oneself over as a slave to someone else in exchange for protection and food. One could be sentenced temporarily to enslavement for some offense but later purchase his manumission. Young men could enter into a kind of "contract" with a king or chieftain to join his retinue, accepting his authority, patronage, and jurisdiction, while at the same time making a quick social elevation. Slavery was widespread all over Europe during the early Middle Ages and Scandinavians, as Stefan Brink illustrates in this book, became a major player in the northern slave trade. However, the Vikings were not particularly interested in taking slaves to Scandinavia; instead, their "business model" seems to have been to raid, abduct, and then sell captured people at major slave markets. Their goal was not people but silver. Using a wide variety of source materials, including archaeology, runes, Icelandic sagas, early law, place names, personal names, and not least etymological and semantic analyses of the terminology of slaves, Thraldom provides the most thorough survey of slavery in the Viking Age.

Book Thraldom

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  • Author : Stefan Brink
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2021
  • ISBN : 0197532357
  • Pages : 409 pages

Download or read book Thraldom written by Stefan Brink and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of my research was turned into a book published in Swedish in 2012. This present book is a revised translation and extensively extended version of that book.

Book Slavery and Social Death

Download or read book Slavery and Social Death written by Orlando Patterson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South.

Book Iceland

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  • Author : Richard F. Tomasson
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN : 1452910324
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Iceland written by Richard F. Tomasson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of the evolution of Icelandic society.

Book The Delectable Negro

Download or read book The Delectable Negro written by Vincent Woodard and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved personOCOs claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. The Delectable Negro explores these connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture. Utilizing many staples of African American literature and culture, such as the slave narratives of OlaudahEquiano, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass, as well as other less circulated materials like James L. SmithOCOs slave narrative, runaway slave advertisements, and numerous articles from Black newspapers published in the nineteenth century, Woodard traces the racial assumptions, political aspirations, gender codes, and philosophical frameworks that dictated both European and white American arousal towards Black males and hunger for Black male flesh. Woodard uses these texts to unpack how slaves struggled not only against social consumption, but also against endemic mechanisms of starvation and hunger designed to break them. He concludes with an examination of the controversial chain gang oral sex scene in Toni MorrisonOCOs Beloved, suggesting that even at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, we are still at a loss for language with which to describe Black male hunger within a plantation culture of consumption."

Book The Modern Language Journal

Download or read book The Modern Language Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Reviews"

Book Catalogue of Copyright Entries

Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Register

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  • Author : University of Chicago
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1923
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 616 pages

Download or read book Annual Register written by University of Chicago and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Leslie A  White

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  • Author : William J. Peace
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803236813
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Leslie A White written by William J. Peace and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few figures in modern American anthropology have been more controversial or influential than Leslie A. White (1900?1975). Between the early 1940s and mid-1960s, White?s work was widely discussed, and he was among the most frequently cited American anthropologists in the world. After writing several respected ethnographic works about the Pueblo Indians, White broke ranks with anthropologists who favored such cultural histories and began to radically rethink American anthropology. As his political interest in socialism grew, he revitalized the concept of cultural evolution and reinvigorated comparative studies of culture. His strident political beliefs, radical interpretive vision, and often combative nature earned him enemies inside and outside the academy. His trip to the Soviet Union and participation in the Socialist Labor Party brought him to the attention of the FBI during the height of the Cold War, and near-legendary scholarly and political conflicts surrounded him at the University of Michigan. ø Placing White?s life and work in historic context, William J. Peace documents the broad sociopolitical influences that affected his career, including many aspects of White?s life that are largely unknown, such as the reasons he became antagonistic toward Boasian anthropology. In so doing, Peace sheds light on what made White such a colorful figure as well as his enduring contributions to modern anthropology.

Book Catalogue of the Icelandic Collection Bequeathed by Willard Fiske

Download or read book Catalogue of the Icelandic Collection Bequeathed by Willard Fiske written by Cornell University. Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Iceland

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  • Author : John Joseph Horton
  • Publisher : Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Iceland written by John Joseph Horton and published by Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Index Nordicus

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  • Author : Janet Kvamme Cousins
  • Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 624 pages

Download or read book Index Nordicus written by Janet Kvamme Cousins and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Routledge Revivals  Medieval Scandinavia  1993

Download or read book Routledge Revivals Medieval Scandinavia 1993 written by Phillip Pulsiano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993, Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia covers every aspect of the region during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art. Written by a team of expert contributors, the encyclopedia offers those who lack command of the various Scandinavian languages a basic tool for the study of Medieval Scandinavia from roughly the Migration Period to the Reformation. With full-page maps, useful supplementary photos, cross-references and a comprehensive index, this work will be a valuable and absorbing volume for students of the Norse sagas, the Viking age, and Old English history and literature, and for anyone interested in the cultural and historical heritage of Scandinavia.

Book Indian Slavery in Colonial America

Download or read book Indian Slavery in Colonial America written by Alan Gallay and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European enslavement of American Indians began with Christopher Columbus?s arrival in the New World. The slave trade expanded with European colonies, and though African slave labor filled many needs, huge numbers of America?s indigenous peoples continued to be captured and forced to work as slaves. Although central to the process of colony-building in what became the United States, this phenomena has received scant attention from historians. ø Indian Slavery in Colonial America, edited by Alan Gallay, examines the complicated dynamics of Indian enslavement. How and why Indians became both slaves of the Europeans and suppliers of slavery?s victims is the subject of this book. The essays in this collection use Indian slavery as a lens through which to explore both Indian and European societies and their interactions, as well as relations between and among Native groups.