Slavery, almost unknown during the medieval period, when the notion of private property restricted ownership of anything to a privileged few, returned with a vengeance to fill the need for manpower in the labor-intensive colonial cultivation of sugar.

The wartime shortages were absurd. I saw a newspaper story that said citizens of Belgrade could now buy entire slaughtered pigs on easy credit terms—people were buying these pigs on installment plans and bringing them home to cut up for sausage. People’s bathrooms were filled with hanging pork. Whenever a truckload of anything—toilet paper, cans of

Les civilisations chaldéennes et égyptiennes étaient agricoles, alors que celles des contrées avoisinantes étaient, primitivement, pastorales, mais un élément nouveau apparut avec le développement du commerce qui, à l’origine, se faisait presque entièrement par mer. Jusqu’aux environs de l’an 1000 avant J.-C. les armes étaient de bronze et les