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The Arthurdale School Cultural Intervention Through Rural Folklife Education in a Progressive New Deal Setting
This book chronicles the school envisioned by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1933 to serve Arthurdale, the New Deal government-created community in...
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Resource Devastation on Native American Lands Toxic Earth, Poisoned People
This book focuses on the toxic legacy of Native North America, which is pervasive but largely invisible to most non-Native peoples. Many toxic sites...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History
This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout history. To understand slavery - why...
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Slavery and Serfdom in Muscovy and the Russian Empire
This chapter aims to assess forms of strong asymmetric social dependency in early modern Russia, especially with respect to slaves, servants, and...
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Mesopotamian Slavery
A survey of Mesopotamian slavery provides an opportunity to evaluate how foundational or institutional the practice was in its earliest known forms....
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Slavery in South Asia
Slavery in South Asia during the early modern and colonial periods is a broad and diverse category, including practices ranging from agricultural...
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American Slaveries Since Emancipation
This chapter explores the continuing existence of slavery-like practices within the United States itself and in its sites of imperial interest...
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Injection: A Gender Perspective on Domestic Slavery
This “injection” comes from the point of view of a historian of slavery turned historian of sexuality. The history of sexuality sits very uneasily...
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Slavery in Southeastern Europe
In Southeastern Europe, slavery was present in various forms from antiquity until the nineteenth century. During the 1800s, slavery as a social...
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Slavery in the Western Mediterranean
This chapter discusses household slavery in relation to the urbanization process and Mediterranean colonialism taking place in late medieval Europe....
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Slavery in Ancient Greece
Slavery was a defining phenomenon in the history of Greek city-states. This chapter explores the various local slaving systems of ancient Greece and...
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North Korean Slavery and Forced Labor in Present-Day Europe
This chapter deals with the practice of exploiting North Korean workers in the European Union through human trafficking, forced labor, and the...
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Slavery in the Roman Empire
The Roman Empire developed one of the largest and most economically and culturally integrated systems of slavery in world history. It thrived on a...
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Conclusion
The conclusion features a brief examination of public theatre in the months leading up to the founding of Haiti on 1 January 1804 as the local...
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Introduction
The book begins by presenting evidence of the links between theatre-making and ‘slave ownership’ in colonial Saint-Domingue. Key information about...
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Alberta’s Moonscape: If This Sounds Apocalyptic, It Is
This chapter describes Native peoples in Alberta, Canada, who have found some of their lands devastated by tar (or oil) sand mining. Native peoples...
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Mining: Tearing at Mother’s Breast
This chapter describes several of many instances in which Native peoples across North America have organized against mining on their homelands,...
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Impediments to True Democracy and a Cosmopolitan World
The third chapter focuses on racism. Locke took racism to be America’s deepest and most fundamental problem. As such, he took it to be the gravest...
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Introduction
The introductory remarks do four things. First, they introduce Locke as a philosopher. Second, they briefly discuss Locke’s cosmopolitan commitments...
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One Cosmopolitan World, or None
The first chapter describes Locke’s cosmopolitan theory. I show Locke’s cosmopolitan commitments by appeal to a common division in contemporary...