CHAPTER FIVE Population Control: Bondage and War
Note:5@@@@@@@@@ LO STATO COME CAMPO DI CONCENTRAMENTO E LAVORO FORZATO
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In the multitude of people is the king’s honor, but in the want of people is the destruction of the prince.
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concern over the acquisition and control of population was at the very center of early statecraft.
Note:CONTROLLO
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a population of cultivators
Note:QUEL CHE SERVE
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“population machines”
Note:I PRIMI STATI
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“domesticated” subjects
Note:L ADDOMESTICAMENTO
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flock
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crops.
Note:MASSA MASSA
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produce a surplus in excess of their own needs
Note:OBBIETTIVO
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Spanish colonialism in the New World, the Philippines,
Note:LA CONCENTRAZIONE PRIMO OBBIETTIVO
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The reducciones or concentrated settlements
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Christian mission stations—of whatever denomination—among dispersed populations begin in the same fashion,
Note:MISSIONI
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a surplus available to nonproducing elites. Such a surplus does not exist until the embryonic state creates it.
Note:NECESSITÀ DEL SURPLUS
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Marshall Sahlins
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Access to resources—land, pasture, hunting—was open to all by virtue of membership in a group,
Note:IL LAVORO PRIMA... COMUNISMO
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absence of either compulsion
Note:PRIMA
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no incentive to produce beyond the locally prevailing standards of subsistence and comfort.
Note:PRIMA NO SURPLUS
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A. V. Chayanov,
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when a family had more working members than nonworking dependents, it reduced its overall work effort once sufficiency was assured.
Note:EVIDENZE DI RIDUZIONE DEL LAVORO
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will not automatically produce a surplus that elites might appropriate,
Note:ELITE A MANI VUOTE
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corvée labor, forced delivery of grain or other products, debt bondage, serfdom, communal bondage and tribute, and various forms of slavery
Note:FORME DI LAVORO FORZATO
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risk of provoking the mass flight of subjects on the other, especially where there was an open frontier.
Note:IL RISCHIO DELLO SFRUTTATORE
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control of the means of production (land) alone suffice,
Note:SOLO DOPO LA PROP DELLA TERRA SOSTITUISCE LA SCHIAVITÙ
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So long as there are other subsistence options,
Note:L UNICA ALTERNATIVA ALLA SCHIAVITÙ
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Ester Boserup
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the archaic state lacked the means to prevent a certain degree of leakage
Note:TASSO NATURALE DI FUGA
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replace their losses by various means, including wars
Note:FUNZIONE DELLA GUERRA
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The state with the most people was generally richest and usually prevailed militarily
Note:POTENZA MILITARE ED ECONOMICA
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the prize of war was more often captives than territory,
Note:PRIGIONIERI
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Warfare in the Mesopotamian
Note:ASSEMBLING POPULATION
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Seth Richardson,
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conquer the smaller
Note:GUERRA TIPICA... PESCE GRANDE MANGIA PESCE PICCOLO
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Polities aimed to assemble “unpacified,” “scattered” people
Note:RADUNARE UN GREGGE
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in a constant struggle to compensate for the losses from flight and mortality
Note:COMPENSARE COMPENSARE
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The Old Babylonian legal codes are preoccupied with escapees and runaways
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THE STATE AND SLAVERY
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Slavery was not invented by the state.
Note:AD ESSERE SINCERI
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Fernando Santos-Granaros
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many forms of communal servitude
Note:IN LATINO AMERICA
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tempered with assimilation and upward mobility,
Note:PRESSO I PELLEROSSA
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bondage was undoubtedly known in the ancient Middle East
Note:MEDIO ORIENTE
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Adam Hochschild
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as late as 1800 roughly three-quarters of the world’s population could be said to be living in bondage.
Note:MA CON LO STATO IL FENOMENO ESPLODE
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In Southeast Asia all early states were slave states and slaving states;
Note:ASIA
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slave raids.
Note:L ATTIVITÀ PIÙ COMUNE
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“No slavery, no state.”
Note:MOTTO
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Moses Finley
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“Was Greek Civilization based on Slave Labour?
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two-thirds—
Note:SCHIAVI AD ATENE
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issue of abolition never arose.
Note:SCONTATA
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some peoples, owing to a lack of rational faculties, are, by nature, slaves
Note:ARISTOTELE
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In Sparta, slaves represented an even larger portion of the population.
Note:SPARTA... PEGGIO MI SENTO
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“helots,” indigenous cultivators conquered
Note:SCHIAVI DEL COMUNISMO SPARTANO
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turned much of the Mediterranean basin into a massive slave emporium.
Note:L AZIONE DO ROMA... LA CITTÁ X ECCELLENZA
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Gallic Wars yielded nearly a million new slaves,
Note:EFFETTO DELLE GUERRE
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quarter to one-third of the population.
Note:SCHIAVI A ROMA
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slave became a unit of measurement:
Note:STANDARD
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SLAVERY AND BONDAGE IN MESOPOTAMIA
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existence of slavery and other forms of bondage is beyond question.
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Finley
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a world without free men,
Note:IL MONDO PRE GRECO X FINLEY
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it was a relatively minor component of the overall economy.
Note:SUMERI BABILONESI EGIZI...
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I would dispute this consensus.
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Note:SFIDA
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they were not well treated. Many are shown in neck fetters or being physically subdued.
Note:CONDIZIONI ESTREME... X L ABBONDANZA DI SCGIAVI
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There are bounty hunters whose specialty it is to locate and return runaway slaves.
Note:CACCIATORI DI SCHIAVI
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absconding was a preoccupation of alluvium politics;
Note:IL NASCONDERSI DEI NOMADI
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A curious confirmation of the conditions of slave and enslaved debtors in Ur III comes from reading a utopian hymn “against the grain.”
Note:LA SOSPENSIONE DELLA VITA ORDINARIA CI RAFFIGURA LA VITA ORDINARIA
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a radical egalitarian moment.
Note:I MOMENTI DI SOSPENSIONE PRIMA DELLE FESTE
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poetic text describes what does not happen in this ritual of exception:
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EGYPT AND CHINA
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SLAVERY AS “HUMAN RESOURCES” STRATEGY
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war helped to a great discovery—that men as well as animals can be domesticated.
Note:SCOPERTA DELL ADDOMESTICAMENTO
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captives of working age, raised at the expense of another society, and get to exploit their most productive years.
Note:IL VANTAGGI EC DELLA SCHIAVITÚ... PRIMO
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socially demobilized or atomized and therefore easier to control
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over several generations, earlier captives would have become nearly indistinguishable from their captors.
Note:ASSIMILAZIONE
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The domesticated flock of sheep has many ewes and few rams,
Note:IL PARALLELO CON LE BESTIE NEL CONTROLLO DELLA RIPROD
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women slaves of reproductive age were prized in large part as breeders
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Who built the Thebes of the seven Gates?
Note:BERTOLT....DOMANDA RETORICA CHE RINVIA ALLA SCHIAVITÙ
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BOOTY CAPITALISM AND STATE BUILDING
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manpower obsession of the early states,
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many horses, so many sheep, so many cattle, so many people.
Note:L UNITÀ X MISURARE IL SUCCESSO DI UNA BATTAGLIA.. BOTTINO
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Max Weber’s concept of “booty capitalism” seems applicable to a great many such wars,
Note:RAPINA IN GRANDE STILE
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Slaving wars
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the slave sector erected over the grain module in the early states was, even if of modest size, an essential component in the creation of a powerful state.
Note:TESI
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concentrated in the most degrading and dangerous labor,
Note:SCHIAVI
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THE PARTICULARITY OF MESOPOTAMIAN SLAVERY AND BONDAGE
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“the absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Note:IL PROBLEMA DELLA SCARSA EVIDENZA
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the reasons why slavery should seem less obtrusive and central in the Mesopotamian evidence than in Greece or Rome.
Note:COSA DOBBIAMO SCOVARE
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the modest size and geographical reach of the Mesopotamian polities,
Note:LA PRINCIPALE RAGIONE
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smaller populations
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scarce documentation
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a significant portion of the captives came from intercity warfare
Note:LO SIAVO ERA DELLA STESSA CULTURA E SI ASSIMILAVA PRESTO
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captives would have become ordinary subjects
Note:QUASI INOSSERVATI
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Mass deportation and forced settlement
Note:ALTRA RAGIONE... LA NN UFFICIALITÁ DI CERYA SCHIAVITÙ
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More than 200,000 Babylonians, for example, were moved to the core of the neo-Assyrian Empire,
Note:ESEMPIO
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For our purpose, however, what is most important is that these resettled populations would not necessarily have appeared in the historical record as slaves at all.
Note:DEPORTATI...NON UFFICIALMENTE SCHIAVI
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the model of the Spartan helot.
Note:ALTRA FORMA DI SCH NN UFFICIALE
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They remained in situ as whole communities,
Note:IN SITU
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annually humiliated in Spartan rituals,
Note:SORTE GRAMA....DI FATTO SCHIAVI
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deliver grain, oil, and wine to their masters.
Note:DOVERI
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“Even the massive settlement of the Mesopotamian plain of the middle of the fourth millennium may have been part of this process.”
Note:ILOTI IN MESOPOT... SCHIAVTÙ NN CONTEGGIATA
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A SPECULATIVE NOTE ON DOMESTICATION, DRUDGERY, AND SLAVERY
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What states surely did invent, however, are large-scale societies based systematically on coerced, captive human labor.
Note:LO STATO NN INVENTA LA SCHIAVITÙ
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slave is a tool for work and, as such, to be considered as a domestic animal as an ox
Note:L IDEA DI ARISTOTELE
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captives, individually and collectively, became an integral part of the state’s means of production
Note:SISTEMA DI PRODUZIONE
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At the very center of domestication is the assertion of human control over the plant’s or animal’s reproduction,
Note:BREEDING
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the strong preference for women
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the demographic stability and growth of the state.
Note:IL CUSCINEYTO DEGLI SCHIAVI SU CERTE VARIABILI
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the state’s overriding interest in maximizing its population
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Quarrying, mining, galley oaring, road building, logging, canal digging,
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