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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: George Mosse and Political Symbolism -- Part I: The Language of Cultural Crisis -- 1: Degeneration and the Medical Model of Cultural Crisis in the French Belle Époque -- 2: The Body without Fatigue: A Nineteenth-Century Utopia -- 3: Practical Reason in Wilhelmian Germany: Marburg Neo-Kantian Thought in Popular Culture -- 4: Caftan and Cravat: The Ostjude as a Cultural Sym bol in the Development o f German Anti-Semitism -- 5: Myth and Symbol in Georges Sorel -- Part II: Science, Myth, and Ideology -- 6: Feminism, Fertility, and Eugenics in Victorian and Edwardian England -- 7: Darwinism and the Working Class in Wilhelmian Germany -- 8: Science and Religion in Early Modern Europe -- Part III: Political Discourse and Cultural Symbols -- 9: Popular Theater and Socialism in Late-Nineteenth-Century France -- 10: Dashed Hopes: On the Painting of the Wars of Liberation -- Photo Essay -- 11: The Nature and Function of Generational Discourse in France on the Eve of World War I -- 12: Man in the Natural World: Some Implications of the National-Socialist Religion -- Part IV: Teaching and Politics: George Mosse in the Pulpit -- 13: GLM: An Appreciation -- 14: With George Mosse in the 1960 -- About the Contributors -- Index.

Slavery and coerced labor have been among the most ubiquitous of human institutions both in time - from ancient times to the present - and in place, having existed in virtually all geographic areas and societies. This volume covers the period from the independence of Haiti to modern perceptions of slavery by assembling twenty-eight original essays, each written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. Issues discussed include the sources of slaves, the slave trade, the social and economic functioning of slave societies, the responses of slaves to enslavement, efforts to abolish slavery continuing to the present day, the flow of contract labor and other forms of labor control in the aftermath of abolition, and the various forms of coerced labor that emerged in the twentieth century under totalitarian regimes and colonialism

Frontmatter -- Series Foreword -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. Slavery and Freedom in the Early Modern World -- 2. Free Labor vs. Slave Labor: The British and Caribbean Cases -- 3. After Serfdom: Russian Emancipation in Comparative Perspective -- 4. From Autonomy to Abundance: Changing Beliefs About the Free Labor System in Nineteenth-Century America -- 5. Changing Legal Conceptions of Free Labor -- 6. Race, Labor, and Gender in the Languages of Antebellum Social Protest -- 7. "We Did Not Separate Man and Wife, But All Had to Work": Freedom and Dependence in the Aftermath of Slave Emancipation -- 8. Free Labor, Law, and American Trade Unionism -- 9. Social Mobility, Free Labor, and the American Dream -- Notes -- Index

This wide-ranging book presents the first comprehensive and comparative account of the slave trade within the nations and colonial systems of the Americas. While most scholarly attention to slavery in the Americas has concentrated on international transatlantic trade, the essays in this volume focus on the slave trades within Brazil, the West Indies, and the Southern states of the United States after the closing of the Atlantic slave trade.The contributors cast new light upon questions that have framed the study of slavery in the Americas for decades. The book investigates such topics as the illegal slave trade in Cuba, the Creole slave revolt in the U.S., and the debate between pro- and antislavery factions over the interstate slave trade in the South. Together, the authors offer fresh and provocative insights into the interrelations of capitalism, sovereignty, and slavery

African slavery was pervasive in Spain's Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave traffic and the plantation at the center of colonial exploitation and conflict. The international group of scholars brought together in this volume explain Spain's role as a colonial pioneer in the Atlantic world and its latecomer status as a slave-trading, plantation-based empire. These contributors map the broad contours and transformations of slave-trafficking, the plantation, and antislavery in the Hispanic Atlantic while also delving into specific topics that include: the institutional and economic foundations of colonial slavery; the law and religion; the influences of the Haitian Revolution and British abolitionism; antislavery and proslavery movements in Spain; race and citizenship; and the business of the illegal slave trade

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Gainers and Losers in the Atlantic Slave Trade -- PART I. THE SOCIAL COST IN AFRICA OF FORCED MIGRATION -- 2. The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on the Societies of the Western Sudan -- 3. Keeping Slaves in Place: The Secret Debate on the Slavery Question in Northern Nigeria, 1900-1904 -- 4. The Numbers, Origins, and Destinations of Slaves in the Eighteenth-Century Angolan Slave Trade -- 5. The Slave Trade: The Formal Demography of a Global System -- PART II. ATLANTIC SLAVERY AND THE EARLY RISE OF THE WESTERN WORLD -- 6. Slavery and the Revolution in Cotton Textile Production in England -- 7 Private Tooth Decay as Public Economic Virtue: The SlaveSugar Triangle, Consumerism, and European Industrialization -- 8. The Slave(ry) Trade and the Development of Capitalism in the United States: The Textile Industry in New England -- 9. British Industry and the West Indies Plantations -- PART III. ATLANTIC SLAVERY, THE WORLD OF THE SLAVES, AND THEIR ENDURING LEGACIES -- 10. The Dispersal of African Slaves in the West by Dutch Slave Traders, 163°-18°3 -- 11. Slave Importation, Runaways, and Compensation in Antigua, 1720-1729 -- 12. Mortality Caused by Dehydration during the Middle Passage -- 13. The Possible Relationship between the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Hypertension in Blacks Today -- 14. The Ending of the Slave Trade and the Evolution of European Scientific Racism -- Index -- Contributors

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction: The Complex and Contested History of Democracy -- Part I Pre-Classical Democracy -- Chapter 1 Prehistory -- Chapter 2 The Assyrians -- Chapter 3 Ancient India -- Chapter 4 Ancient China -- Chapter 5 Israel and Phoenicia -- Part II Classical Democracy -- Chapter 6 Early Greece -- Chapter 7 Athens -- Chapter 8 Rome -- Part III Medieval Democracy -- Chapter 9 Islam -- Chapter 10 Venice -- Chapter 11 The Nordic Countries -- Chapter 12 The Christian Church -- Part IV Early Modern Democracy -- Chapter 13 The English Parliament -- Chapter 14 The Levellers and Diggers -- Chapter 15 The Swiss Cantons -- Chapter 16 The American Revolution -- Chapter 17 The French Revolution -- Part V Colonialism and Democracy -- Chapter 18 Africa -- Chapter 19 Native Americans -- Chapter 20 Australasia -- Chapter 21 Singapore -- Part VI National Movements -- Chapter 22 1808: South American Liberation -- Chapter 23 1848: European Revolutions -- Chapter 24 1919: After Versailles -- Chapter 25 1945: Post-Second World War Japan -- Chapter 26 1989: Eastern Europe -- Part VII Peoples' Movements -- Chapter 27 Anti-Slavery -- Chapter 28 Women's Suffrage -- Chapter 29 Socialism, Communism, Anarchism -- Chapter 30 Civil Rights -- Part VIII Democracy Today -- Chapter 31 South Africa -- Chapter 32 Bolivia -- Chapter 33 Georgia -- Chapter 34 Iraq -- Chapter 35 Burma -- Chapter 36 China since Tiananmen Square -- Chapter 37 Islam since 9/11 -- Part IX Futures and Possibilities -- Chapter 38 Democracy Promotion -- Chapter 39 Transnational Democracy -- Chapter 40 Digital Democracy -- Chapter 41 Radical Democracy -- Chapter 42 Deliberative Democracy -- Chapter 43 New Thinking -- Conclusion: The Future History of Democracy -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index