Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire

448 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Slaves and Slave Agency in the Ottoman Empire offers a new contribution to slavery studies relating to the Ottoman Empire. Given the fact that the classical binary of ‘slavery’ and ‘freedom’ derives from the transatlantic experience, this volume presents an alternative approach by examining the strong asymmetric relationships of dependency documented in the Ottoman Empire. A closer look at the Ottoman social order discloses manifold and ambiguous conditions involving enslavement practices, rather than a single universal pattern. The authors examine various forms of enslavement and dependency with a particular focus on agency, i. e. the room for maneuver, which the enslaved could secure for themselves, or else the available options for action in situations of extreme individual or group dependencies.

• Reihe: Ottoman Studies / Osmanistische Studien
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Besondere Ereignisse und Themen Sklaverei, versklavte Personen und Abschaffung der Sklaverei
• ISBN: 9783847110378
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11.05.2020
• Größe: 23.5 x 16 cm
• Verlag: V&R unipress
• Herausgegeben von: Stephan Conermann
• Herausgegeben von: Stephan Conermann, Gül Şen, Sarah Büssow, Johann Büssow, Suraiya Faroqhi, Yehoshua Frenkel, Zübeyde Güneş Yağcı, Jane Hathaway, Betül Ipsirli Argit, Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska, Ehud R. Toledano, Veruschka Wagner, Joshua White, Christoph Witzenrath, Gül Şen