Geopolitical analysis of the collapse of empires by syrous Ahmadi Nohdani, aziz nasirzade, reyhane salehabadi

“…The findings demonstrate that variables such as the incompetence and capriciousness of rulers, the collapse of the domestic economy, the extravagance and corruption of the governing class, oppression and slavery, and internal rebellions have a high level of interaction and a strong systemic connection with other variables. …”
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The (In)Human Condition by Vicky Angelaki

“…As the article goes on to demonstrate, Stephens, Nübling and their international team of collaborators arrive at a staging method that is both aesthetically intuitive and politically astute in order to offer rigorous stage commentary on the state of sex trade - and especially sex slavery - in our time. In so doing, they also powerfully question the primacy of humans over animals, raising important points as to vulnerability and transgression, the assumption of authority over nature, and also to humans in positions of power versus humans in positions of vulnerability.…”
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Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), from Unitarianism to Agnosticism by Odile Boucher-Rivalain

“…Her many radical stances on such issues as education, women’s rights or the abolition of slavery, reflect the evolution of her ideas, from her early career as a contributor to the Unitarian magazine The Monthly Repository to her later philosophical enquiry into the progress of the world and man’s individual and social responsibilities. …”
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The West and the Rest of Us? by Masilo Lepuru

“…Their project of African Independence as undergirded by Pan-Africanism sought to challenge the West as the embodiment of slavery and colonialism (Chinweizu 1975) not only on the continent where it created colonies but the post-World War II dispensation. …”
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THE RACIAL FACTOR AND PAN-AFRICANISM IN NIGERIAN FOREIGN POLICY by JOHN TOR TSUWA, AFONGU AONDOAKAA IORNUMBE

“…The paper discovered that, Nigeria as a black nation has displayed a great commitment in the liberation struggles waged against slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism and racist regimes in African continent such as in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia among others. …”
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“Here Lies the Possibility of Bodies Turning Elemental”: by Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang

“…I argue that Serpent Rain rejects this binary of erasure vs. contained representation in its treatment of slavery, enacting instead another type of (non)representation that moves beyond “the limits of most available narratives to explain the position of the enslaved” (Hartman and Wilderson 2023, 184). …”
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Commerce and Sentiment in Tales of Barbary Encounter: Cathcart, Barlow, Markoe, Tyler, and Rowson by Andrew S. Gross

“…In all three texts, Jews are excluded from the vision of common sentiment and made to symbolize what was cruel about commerce; it is my argument that they served as scapegoats for the American discomfort with its own failures of sentiment, evidenced most obviously by chattel slavery and the slave trade.  These fictionalized tales of encounter hold up sentiment as the solution to all sorts of conflict.  …”
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La révision constitutionnelle du 20 mars 2012 en Mauritanie by Ahmed Salem Ould Bouboutt

“…By institutionalizing cultural diversity, banning slavery and prohibiting “coups d’état” the 2012 amendment makes a number of minor but useful adjustments.…”
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Le touriste malgré lui : John Edgar Wideman et la Martinique by Michel Feith

“…Yet, tourism can also be a late outpost of slavery, “stealth” having replaced strength as a tool of domination. …”
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Unravelling Mortality in Enslavement. Patterns and Determinants of Mortality Among the Enslaved Population of Curaçao, 1839–1963 by Wieke Elien Metzlar, Nadeche Diepgrond

“… Examining demographic patterns of enslaved populations can shed light on living conditions of people living in slavery. During the 19th century, enslaved populations in Latin America and the Caribbean were characterized by an excess of deaths, indicating the harsh living conditions they were forced to live in. …”
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NATIONAL ROMANTICISM IN WALT WHITMAN POEMS by Tomi Arianto

“…Patriotic themes and nationalities are seen from the struggle for the right of individual freedom in opposing slavery and aristocratic government. The egalitarian concept is seen from the struggle to promote equality, as well as the democracy system that promotes people's sovereignty. …”
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At the Origins of Chartism: James O’Brien by Darya A. Avakyan, Kirill M. Anderson, Olga D. Talskaya

“…The authors dwell in the most detail on the content of his fundamental work O’Brien “The Rise, Progress and phases of human slavery: how it came into the world and what needs to be done to make it go away.” …”
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El anticapitalismo y sus aproximaciones al trabajo social brasileño: anunciando algunas controversias y concepciones by Kelly Rodrigues Melatti, Terezinha de Fátima Rodrigues, Maria Carmelita Yazbek

“…This presence is expressed through the organic linkages with social movements and struggles in a highly unequal brazilian society, marked by late capitalism, dependence, subordination, and reconfigured forms of colonial slavery in the shape of racist and patriarchal practices. …”
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Acumulação primitiva: um processo atuante na sociedade contemporânea by Sandra Lencioni

“…Several examples of robbery of the natural resources are given, including the bio-piracy. Also, the debt slavery is emphasized as a violent form of spoliation, a form of primitive accumulation of capital in which the free worker, by mechanisms of subjection which he is subjugated, loses his freedom. …”
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A Critical Review of "Non-Existence of God" on the Aristotle's Book “Nicomachean Ethics” and its Effect on Philosophical Ethics Writing among Muslims by Zahra Atashi, Mojtaba Javidi, Alireza Farsinejad

“…This article deals with this issue with a descriptive-analytical-critical method and has listed some of the consequences and results of formulating philosophical ethics based on Aristotle's ethics as follows: changing the subject and purpose of ethics, not considering a place for slavery and relationship ethics between Man and God, the absence of the concept of the hereafter and eternal life in the science of ethics, different views on the concepts of goodness, happiness, and virtue in Islam, lack of explanation of the place of narration, revelation, and law in Islamic ethics and separation of ethics from revelatory sciences such as jurisprudence, personalization of Islamic ethics and lack of attention to its social dimensions.…”
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La littérature de la Caraïbe pour la jeunesse : des histoires à part ou l’histoire à part entière ? by Véronique Bonnet

“…As all West Indian literary productions, it grants a significant place to the writing of history: whether it is the memory of slavery or of immediate history (news item, conflicts, stories of immigration). …”
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The Fight against the Forced Labor and the Human Trafficking in Central Asia by L. Yu. Gusev

“…In Kazakhstan, according to the new law it has become easier to initiate criminal proceedings concerning labor slavery. In addition, a temporary accommodation center for victims of human trafficking «Komek» was created. …”
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The Spartan King Leonidas I: History and modern times by E.A. Tchiglintsev, N.A. Shadrina

“…Anti-tyrannical ideas and the cult of freedom as opposed to slavery inspired the artists of the 17th – 18th centuries (Henry Purcell, Richard Glover) to create their poems celebrating the heroic ideal of Leonidas I. …”
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Historiography in Vilnius University from 1803 to 1832: between education and romanticizm by Mečislovas Jučas

“…The full release of creative potentials is possible only with political freedom and freedom of mind. Despotism and slavery limits the progress of society while democracy stimulates it. …”
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Akin Ogundiran: The Historian and Archaeologist of Yoruba-Atlantic becomes Chancellor Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte by Toyin Falola

“…In my book, The African Diaspora: Slavery, Modernity and Globalization, I devoted Chapter 10 to his oeuvre, stating in one of the key paragraphs that: 268 Toyin Falola In connecting West Africa to the Atlantic economy, Ogundiran is pointing to what could be characterized as the metabolic rift between supply and demand; African economies were on the supply side of the global division of labor that compelled them to produce for the Atlantic economy and, at the same time, to consume products from external sources. …”
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