{"product_id":"slavery-and-social-death-a-comparative-study-with-a-new-preface-9780674986909","title":"Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, with a New Preface","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological Association\u003cbr\u003eCo-Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a work of prodigious scholarship and enormous breadth, which draws on the tribal, ancient, premodern, and modern worlds, Orlando Patterson discusses the internal dynamics of slavery in sixty-six societies over time. These include Greece and Rome, medieval Europe, China, Korea, the Islamic kingdoms, Africa, the Caribbean islands, and the American South. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraise for the previous edition: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Densely packed, closely argued, and highly controversial in its dissent from much of the scholarly conventional wisdom about the function and structure of slavery worldwide.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There can be no doubt that this rich and learned book will reinvigorate debates that have tended to become too empirical and specialized. Patterson has helped to set out the direction for the next decades of interdisciplinary scholarship.\"\u003cbr\u003e--David Brion Davis, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is clearly a major and important work, one which will be widely discussed, cited, and used. I anticipate that it will be considered among the landmarks in the study of slavery, and will be read by historians, sociologists, and anthropologists--as well as many other scholars and students.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Stanley Engerman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatterson, Orlando:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Orlando Patterson is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University; the author of \u003ci\u003eFreedom in the Making of Western Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and \u003ci\u003eSlavery and Social Death\u003c\/i\u003e (Harvard); and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth\u003c\/i\u003e (Harvard), for which he was awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. His work has been honored by the American Sociological Association and the American Political Science Association, among others, and he is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as Special Advisor for Social Policy and Development to Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley and was awarded the Order of Distinction by the Government of Jamaica.","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50621023224082,"sku":"9780674986909","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8d11a719-1305-43f4-b250-e34503283284.jpg?v=1732578531","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/slavery-and-social-death-a-comparative-study-with-a-new-preface-9780674986909","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}