For the first time, this book provides the global history of labor in Central Eurasia, Russia, Europe, and the Indian Ocean between the 16th and 20th centuries. It contests common views on free and unfree labor, comparing the latter to many Western countries where wage conditions resembled those...

The article deals with one of the most difficult theoretical problems of legal science - the problem of developing a unified methodological approach to the study of the historically first sources of international law related to the local legal system of Ancient Rome. The subject of the study is...