Serfdom and Slavery

<p>Serfdom and Slavery explores the variety and common characteristics - of legal bondage in Europe and the New World since classical times. Within a tightly controlled framework of general contextual chapters followed by specific case studies a distinguished team of scholars offers 17 specially written essays which range from classical Greece to early modern Brandenburg and from medieval England to nineteenth-century Russia. It makes an important contribution to a topic of increasing international interest.</p><p>Contributors include Robert Brenner Wendy Davies Christopher Dyer Stanley Engerman William Hagen Richard Saller and Howard Temperley.</p>