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Slavery appears as a figurative construct during the English revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, and again in the American and French revolutions, when radicals represent their treatment as a form of political slavery. What, if anything, does figurative, political slavery have to do with transatlantic slavery? In Arbitrary Rule, Mary Nyquist explores connections between political and chattel slavery by excavating the tradition of Western political thought that justifies actively opposing tyranny. She argues that as powerful rhetorical and conceptual constructs, Greco-Roman political liberty and slavery reemerge at the time of early modern Eurocolonial expansion; they help to create racialized "free" national identities and their "unfree" counterparts in non-European nations represented as inhabiting an earlier, privative age. Arbitrary Rule is the first book to tackle political slavery's discursive complexity, engaging Eurocolonialism, political philosophy, and literary studies, areas of study too often kept apart.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: specific events & topics

• Full title: Arbitrary Rule
• Subtitle: Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death
• Author: Mary Nyquist
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 436
• EAN: 9780226271798
• ISBN: 022627179X
• ID: 09231865
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 674 g
• Dimensions: 155 × 230 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. March 2015

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