| The Politics of Slavery Contributor(s): Brace, Laura (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474452167 ISBN-13: 9781474452168 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $28.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Social Science | Slavery - Political Science | Political Freedom |
| Dewey: 320.086 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What makes a slave a slave? What does it mean to think about slavery as a political question? This book examines slavery and freedom as founding narratives of the liberal subject and of modernity. Laura Brace asks what happens when we try to bring slaves back into history, and into the history of political thought in particular. Looking at scholarship on both 'old' and 'new' slavery, the book assesses the work of Aristotle, Locke, Hegel, Kant, Wollstonecraft and Mill, and explores the contemporary concerns of human trafficking and the prison industrial complex to consider the limitations of 'new slavery' discourse. |