Product Description: Pulitzer Prize-winner David Brion Davis here provides a penetrating survey of slavery and emancipation from ancient times to the twentieth century. His trenchant analysis puts the most recent international debates about freedom and human rights into much-needed perspective...read more

This book represents a pioneer attempt to rethink the application of mathematical techniques to the study of the development of human societies. The editors, an archaeologist and a mathematician, have brought together the contributions of leading anthropologists, mathematicians, historians, archaeologists, and theoretical biologist, all of whom utilize mathematical concepts and methods to deepen our understanding of culture change in prehistoric and more recent societies.

Presents a history of slavery with emphasis on the role of the church (view table of contents)

A collection of essays in which every contributor focuses upon some aspect of slave emancipation with the aim of assessing to what extent the outcome met with expectation. The hopes and disappointments that characterized the transition from slavery to freedom are depicted. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Levy, Claude

Product Description: This book represents a pioneer attempt to rethink the application of mathematical techniques to the study of the development of human societies. The editors, an archaeologist and a mathematician, have brought together the contributions of leading anthropologists, mathematicians, historians, archaeologists, and theoretical biologist, all of whom utilize mathematical concepts and methods to deepen our understanding of culture change in prehistoric and more recent societies...read more