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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

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