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The extremely violent era of the world wars, 1914-1945, nurtured an unexpected reversal of the progress of abolition and a spectacular resurrection of slavery. This new book offers a reinterpretation of this period by examining the reinvention of labor compulsion on the European continent. Nationalists, communists, and fascists revived the militarism, torture, and mass murder that characterized previous slave societies in Africa, the Islamic world, and the Americas.
The Western Allies, led by the UK and the USA, fought both world wars but especially the second not only to defend their nations and empires but also as a new abolitionist struggle which prepared the coming Cold War.
Michael Seidman received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Workers against Work: Labor in Barcelona and Paris during the Popular Fronts, (1991) which has been translated into six languages, Republic of Egos: A Social History of the Spanish Civil War, (2002) (Spanish translation, 2003) and The Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War, (2011) (Spanish translation, 2012). His articles have appeared in British, American, Spanish, French, German, and Chinese journals. He has taught at Rutgers University and currently teaches at the University of North Carolina-Wilmington