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Title: Slavery and Human Progress Condition: New Author: David Brion Davis Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0195037332 EAN: 9780195037333 ISBN: 9780195037333 Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Genre: Society & Culture Topic: Social Sciences Release Date: 09/18/1986 Description: Pulitzer Prize-winner David Brion Davis here provides a penetrating survey of slavery and emancipation from ancient times to the twentieth century. His trenchant analysis puts the most recent international debates about freedom and human rights into much-needed perspective. Davis shows that slavery was once regarded as a form of human progress, playing a critical role in the expansion of the western world. It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuriesthat views of slavery as a retrograde institution gained far-reaching acceptance. Davis illuminates this momentous historical shift from "progressive" enslavement to "progressive" emancipation,ranging over an array of important developments--from the slave trade of early Muslims and Jews to twentieth-century debates over slavery in the League of Nations and the United Nations. In probing the intricate connections among slavery, emancipation, and the idea of progress, Davis sheds new light on two crucial issues: the human capacity for dignifying acts of oppression and the problem of implementing social change. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 204mm Item Length: 136mm Item Width: 20mm Item Weight: 345g Book Series: Galaxy Books Release Year: 1986 Missing Information?
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