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It is a stimulating book in which the authors have made a major contribution to our understanding of mutiny in multi-contextual analysis. They have given us an expanded conception of mutiny from which further work can continue in this important area. -Lorenzo M. Crowell Associate Professor of History Mississippi State University Jane Hathaway has pulled together a truly impressive volume that throws much light not only on mutinies but also on the social politics and organizational cultures of armed forces. State-of-the-art scholarship covers a range that includes India and Jamaica under the British, the American Civil War, the two World Wars, and modern China. In a volume that is conceptually rich, there are also important discussions on the symbolism and remembering of mutiny, for example, the symbolism of slave mutiny. A first-rate collection that deserves widespread attention. -Caroline Finkel [This book] will challenge the preconceptions of military and other historians alike...Mutineers speak for themselves through the narratives in this collection. Thus we learn how they perceived their aims and the means by which they hoped to achieve them. We discover how they viewed themselves and chose to represent themselves and their discontents--as soliders or sailors pitted against unyielding officers, as subject of a distant ruler, as citizens expecting redress from a responsive government, or as a revolutionary vanguard. -Jeremy Black author of The Politics of James Bond

[This book] will challenge the preconceptions of military and other historians alike...Mutineers speak for themselves through the narratives in this collection. Thus we learn how they perceived their aims and the means by which they hoped to achieve them. We discover how they viewed themselves and chose to represent themselves and their discontents--as soliders or sailors pitted against unyielding officers, as subject of a distant ruler, as citizens expecting redress from a responsive government, or as a revolutionary vanguard. -Jeremy Black author of The Politics of James Bond

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JANE HATHAWAY is associate professor of Islamic and world history at The Ohio State University. Her specialty is the Ottoman Empire, particularly Egypt and Yemen in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. She is the author of The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdaglis, as well as numerous articles on topics related to the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Arab provinces, and early Islamic history.

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