Overview
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.
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Author: Marcus Rediker , Titas Chakraborty , Matthias van Rossum
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Volume: 28
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9780520304352
ISBN 10: 0520304357
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 30 July 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations and Tables Introduction: Flight as Fight Leo Lucassen and Lex Heerma van Voss 1. Runaways and Deserters in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire: The Examples of São Tomé Island, South Asia, and Southern Portugal Timothy Coates 2. Escaping St. Thomas: Class Relations and Convict Strategies in the Danish West Indies, 1672–1687 Johan Heinsen 3. Between the Mountains and the Sea: Knowledge, Networks, and Transimperial Desertion in the Leeward Archipelago, 1627–1727 James F. Dator 4. Desertion of European Sailors and Soldiers in Early Eighteenth- Century Bengal Titas Chakraborty 5. “More of a Danger to the Colony Than the Enemy Himself ”: Military Labor, Desertion, and Imperial Rule in French Louisiana (ca. 1715–1760) Yevan Terrien 6. “Journeying into Freedom”: Traditions of Desertion at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–1795 Nicole Ulrich 7. Running Together or Running Apart? Diversity, Desertion, and Resistance in the Dutch East India Company Empire, 1650–1800 Matthias van Rossum 8. Voting with Their Feet: Absconding and Labor Exploitation in Convict Australia Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Michael Quinlan 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 Anita Rupprecht 10. Lurking but Working: City Maroons in Antebellum New Orleans Mary Niall Mitchell 11. Runaway Slaves, Vigilance Committees, and the Pedagogy of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1863 Jesse Olsavsky Selected References Contributors Illustration Credits Index
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This remarkable collection of case studies extends the field of global migration history. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *
This remarkable collection of case studies extends the field of global migration history. Highly recommended. * CHOICE * A great read, drawing its strengths from a global comparative approach and well-researched empirical case studies. It will have a significant impact on research on coerced labourers around the world and their responses to their treatment. * Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History *
A great read, drawing its strengths from a global comparative approach and well-researched empirical case studies. It will have a significant impact on research on coerced labourers around the world and their responses to their treatment. * Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History * This remarkable collection of case studies extends the field of global migration history. Highly recommended. * CHOICE *
Author Information
Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. Titas Chakraborty is Assistant Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University. Matthias van Rossum is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
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