A unique and unknown story of how the great European powers reinstated slavery in the 20th century.
The extremely violent era of the world wars (1914-1945) led to a spectacular resurgence of slavery and an unexpected setback for abolitionism.
Nationalists, communists, and fascists in the Ottoman Empire, the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, fascist Italy, Vichy France, and Spain during its civil war revived the militarism, torture, and mass murder that characterized previous slave societies in Africa, the Islamic world, and the Americas.
The new enslavers limited personal mobility, property rights, legal protection, sexual freedom, privacy, and the very life of their prisoners.
Slaves in 20th century Europe (1914-1945) is the result of extensive and deep research that Michael Seidman (in the photo) has conducted over the years to highlight that the evolution of societies can easily be halted and reversed in tumultuous times.
Michael Seidman, an American historian and Hispanist, teaches at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington and previously at Rutgers University. In addition to The Imaginary Revolution, he has published with Alianza Editorial Antifascisms 1936-1945; On the Ground. Social History of the Republic during the Civil War; and The National Victory. Counter-revolutionary Effectiveness in the Civil War.
Number of pages: 744
Publisher: Espasa
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9788467080377
Price: 33.15 euros