Democracy’s Slaves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy’s Slaves write by Paulin Ismard. This book was released on 2017-01-09. Democracy’s Slaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Genesis -- Servants of the city -- Strange slaves -- The democratic order of knowledge -- The mysteries of the Greek state
Democracy’s Slaves
Democracy’s Slaves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy’s Slaves write by Paulin Ismard. This book was released on 2017-01-09. Democracy’s Slaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ancient Greek statesman is a familiar figure in the Western political tradition. Less well known is the administrator who ran the state but who was himself a slave. Challenging the modern belief that democracy and bondage are incompatible, Paulin Ismard directs our attention to the cradle of Western democracy, ancient Athens, where the functioning of civic government depended crucially on highly skilled experts who were literally public servants—slaves owned by the city-state rather than by private citizens. Known as dēmosioi, these public slaves filled a variety of important roles in Athenian society. They were court clerks, archivists, administrators, accountants, and policemen. Many possessed knowledge and skills beyond the attainments of average citizens, and they enjoyed privileges, such as the right to own property, that were denied to private slaves. In effect, dēmosioi were Western civilization’s first civil servants—though they carried out their duties in a condition of bound servitude. Ismard detects a radical split between politics and administrative government at the heart of Athenian democracy. The city-state’s managerial caste freed citizens from the day-to-day responsibilities of running the state. By the same token, these public servants were unable to participate in the democratic process because they lacked the rights of full citizenship. By rendering the state’s administrators politically invisible, Athens warded off the specter of a government capable of turning against the citizens’ will. In a real sense, Ismard shows, Athenian citizens put the success of their democratic experiment in the hands of slaves.
Peasant-Citizen and Slave
Peasant-Citizen and Slave - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Peasant-Citizen and Slave write by Ellen Meiksins Wood. This book was released on 2015-11-03. Peasant-Citizen and Slave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable in Athenian political institutions and culture. From a survey of historical writings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the focus of which distorted later debates, Wood goes on to take issue with recent arguments, such as those of G.E.M. de Ste Croix, about the importance of slavery in agricultural production. The social, political and cultural influence of the peasant-citizen is explored in a way which questions some of the most cherished conventions of Marxist and non-Marxist historiography.
Sites of Slavery
Sites of Slavery - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sites of Slavery write by Salamishah Tillet. This book was released on 2012-07-26. Sites of Slavery available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Sites of Slavery Salamishah Tillet examines how contemporary African American artists and intellectuals—including Annette Gordon-Reed, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Bill T. Jones, Carrie Mae Weems, and Kara Walker—turn to the subject of slavery in order to understand and challenge the ongoing exclusion of African Americans from the founding narratives of the United States.
Slavery and the Democratic Conscience
Slavery and the Democratic Conscience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slavery and the Democratic Conscience write by Padraig Riley. This book was released on 2016-01-08. Slavery and the Democratic Conscience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Slavery and the Democratic Conscience explains how democratic subjects confronted and came to terms with slaveholder power in the early American Republic. Slavery was not an exception to the rise of American democracy, Padraig Riley argues, but was instead central to the formation of democratic institutions and ideals.
