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Servants, Masters, and the Coercion of Labor: Inventing the Rhetoric of Slavery, the Verbal Sanctuaries Which Sustain It, and How It Was Used to Sanitize American Slavery's History - Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics New edition
David K. O'Rourke
Servants, Masters, and the Coercion of Labor: Inventing the Rhetoric of Slavery, the Verbal Sanctuaries Which Sustain It, and How It Was Used to Sanitize American Slavery's History - Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics New edition
David K. O'Rourke
This book by David K. O'Rourke presents a study of language and linguistic forms and the roles they played in the initial imagining, developing, and maintaining of a society based on coerced labor. It focuses especially on the contexts of coercion and on the differences in the roles of masters and servants from society to society.
172 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | December 28, 2015 |
ISBN13 | 9781433125171 |
Publishers | Peter Lang Publishing Inc |
Pages | 172 |
Dimensions | 231 × 157 × 17 mm · 368 g |
Language | English |
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