Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 263 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780520973060
Series Statement:
The California World History Library 28
Content:
During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaways, edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias van Rossum, compares and connects runaways in the British, Danish, Dutch, French, Mughal, Portuguese, and American empires. Together these essays show how capitalism required vast numbers of mobile workers who would build the foundations of a new economic order. At the same time, these laborers challenged that order—from the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth
Content:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Introduction: Flight as Fight / Lucassen, Leo / Voss, Lex Heerma van -- 1. Runaways and Deserters in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire: The Examples of São Tomé Island, South Asia, and Southern Portugal / Coates, Timothy -- 2. Escaping St. Thomas: Class Relations and Convict Strategies in the Danish West Indies, 1672–1687 / Heinsen, Johan -- 3. Between the Mountains and the Sea: Knowledge, Networks, and Transimperial Desertion in the Leeward Archipelago, 1627–1727 / Dator, James F. -- 4. Desertion of European Sailors and Soldiers in Early Eighteenth- Century Bengal / Chakraborty, Titas -- 5. “More of a Danger to the Colony Than the Enemy Himself ”: Military Labor, Desertion, and Imperial Rule in French Louisiana (ca. 1715–1760) / Terrien, Yevan -- 6. “Journeying into Freedom”: Traditions of Desertion at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–1795 / Ulrich, Nicole -- 7. Running Together or Running Apart? Diversity, Desertion, and Resistance in the Dutch East India Company Empire, 1650–1800 / Rossum, Matthias van -- 8. Voting with Their Feet: Absconding and Labor Exploitation in Convict Australia / Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish / Quinlan, Michael -- 9. “He says that if he is not taught a trade, he will run away”: Recaptured Africans, Desertion, and Mobility in the British Caribbean, 1808–1828 / Rupprecht, Anita -- 10. Lurking but Working: City Maroons in Antebellum New Orleans / Niall Mitchell, Mary -- 11. Runaway Slaves, Vigilance Committees, and the Pedagogy of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1863 / Olsavsky, Jesse -- Selected References -- Contributors -- Illustration Credits -- Index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520304352
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520304369
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe A global history of runaways Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2019 ISBN 9780520304369
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520304352
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Arbeitsmobilität
;
Kapitalismus
;
Geschichte 1600-1850
DOI:
10.1525/9780520973060
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Author information:
Rediker, Marcus 1951-
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