This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the sixteenth and the twentieth centuries.

This reprint of that important work includes a new preface by the author, in which he situates the book's argument within the historiographic debates of the last two decades.

Kolchin compares the world of masters and the world of slaves in U.S. and Russian nonfree labor systems.

Considering how tightly bonded into each local society and economy were these institutions, why and how did people decide to abolish them? This collection of essays examines the ways this globally shared experience appeared and developed.

This book includes 110 puzzles, not as individual problems but as incidents in connected stories.

This is a black-and-white facsimile reprint of the 1920 edition. Although it has been checked manually, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Using newly-uncovered archival evidence, Jeff Eden sheds unprecedented light on the lives of slaves ensnared by the Central Asian slave trade.

This volume concentrates on captivity, slavery, ransom and abolition in the vicinity of the Eurasian steppe from the early modern period to recent developments and explores their legacy and relevance down to the modern times.

This volume offers a fresh translation of the Bakhshālī Manuscript.