The book series of the "Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies" publishes monographs and edited volumes that examine different phenomena of slavery and other forms of asymmetrical dependencies in societies. The series follows the BCDSS’s research agenda in going beyond the dichotomy of slavery versus freedom by proposing a new key concept, asymmetrical dependency, which covers all forms of bondage across time and space. This includes debt bondage, convict labor, tributary labor, servitude, serfdom, and domestic work, as well as forms of wage labor and various types of patronage. Works published in this series will also investigate periods, regions and contexts in world history that have not been directly affected by Western colonization, such as the ancient Near East, pre-modern and modern societies in Asia, Africa, and the pre-colonial Americas. weiterlesen