Slavery and Human Progress
Slavery and Human Progress
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奴隶制与人类进步
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1984
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D. Davis
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普利策奖得主大卫布里恩戴维斯在这里提供了一个从古代到二十世纪奴隶制和解放的深入调查。他犀利的分析使最近关于自由和人权的国际辩论成为急需的观点。戴维斯表明，奴隶制曾经被认为是人类进步的一种形式，在西方世界的扩张中发挥了关键作用。直到18世纪和19世纪，奴隶制是一种倒退的制度的观点才得到广泛的接受。戴维斯阐明了这一重大的历史转变，从“渐进”奴役到“渐进”解放，涉及一系列重要的发展-从早期穆斯林和犹太人的奴隶贸易到二十世纪国际联盟和联合国关于奴隶制的辩论。在探索奴隶制，解放和进步的想法之间的错综复杂的联系，戴维斯揭示了两个关键问题的新的光：尊严的压迫行为和实施社会变革的问题的人的能力。
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. Davis shows that slavery was once regarded as a form of human progress, playing a critical role in the expansion of the western world. It was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that views of slavery as a retrograde institution gained far-reaching acceptance. Davis illuminates this momentous historical shift from "progressive" enslavement to "progressive" emancipation, ranging over an array of important developments--from the slave trade of early Muslims and Jews to twentieth-century debates over slavery in the League of Nations and the United Nations. In probing the intricate connections among slavery, emancipation, and the idea of progress, Davis sheds new light on two crucial issues: the human capacity for dignifying acts of oppression and the problem of implementing social change.