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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780674039711
035 _a(DE-B1597)590391
035 _a(OCoLC)1294426391
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050 4 _aHD4861.K65 1987eb
072 7 _aHIS036000
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082 0 4 _a306.362
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aKolchin, Peter
_eautore
245 1 0 _aUnfree Labor :
_bAmerican Slavery and Russian Serfdom /
_cPeter Kolchin.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©1990
300 _a1 online resource (534 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aTwo massive systems of unfree labor arose, a world apart from each other, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The American enslavement of blacks and the Russian subjection of serfs flourished in different ways and varying degrees until they were legally abolished in the mid-nineteenth century. Historian Peter Kolchin compares and contrasts the two systems over time in this magisterial book, which clarifies the organization, structure, and dynamics of both social entities, highlighting their basic similarities while pointing out important differences discernible only in comparative perspective. These differences involved both the masters and the bondsmen. The independence and resident mentality of American slaveholders facilitated the emergence of a vigorous crusade to defend slavery from outside attack, whereas an absentee orientation and dependence on the central government rendered serfholders unable successfully to defend serfdom. Russian serfs, who generally lived on larger holdings than American slaves and faced less immediate interference in their everyday lives, found it easier to assert their communal autonomy but showed relatively little solidarity with peasants outside their own villages; American slaves, by contrast, were both more individualistic and more able to identify with all other blacks, both slave and free. Kolchin has discovered apparently universal features in master-bondsman relations, a central focus of his study, but he also shows their basic differences as he compares slave and serf life and chronicles patterns of resistance. If the masters had the upper hand, the slaves and serfs played major roles in shaping, and setting limits to, their own bondage. This truly unprecedented comparative work will fascinate historians, sociologists, and all social scientists, particularly those with an interest in comparative history and studies in slavery.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)
650 0 _aSerfdom
_zRussia
_xHistory.
650 0 _aSlave labor
_vCross-cultural studies.
650 0 _aSlavery
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.4159/9780674039711?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674039711
856 4 2 _3Cover
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