Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of Revolution: A Global Survey: 21 (International Review of Social History Supplements, Series Number 21) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107689325 ISBN 13: 9781107689329

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Synopsis

This volume explores the transnational dimensions of mutiny and maritime radicalism during the great cycle of war and revolution that began in the mid-1750s and continued until the 1840s. The central theme of the volume is mutiny - its causes, frequency, forms, patterns and outcomes - charting, linking and comparing maritime insurrections in different oceans, on warships, merchant vessels and convict ships. The contributions concentrate on the mutineers themselves, their social composition, self-organisation, objectives and ideas. Also included is unrest in port cities, sites of international exchange between maritime and landed forms of resistance. Sailors spent significant amounts of time in port, sometimes connecting shipboard unrest and radical movements on land in personal, political and social ways. The contributions cover the age of revolution in its full geographic extent, including the Atlantic with its wars and revolutions, but also the Indian and Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea.

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Book Description

This volume explores the transnational dimensions of mutiny and maritime radicalism during the great cycle of war and revolution that began in the mid-1750s and ran until the 1840s. The central theme of the volume is mutiny in its full geographic extent from the Atlantic to the South China Sea.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107689325
• ISBN 13: 9781107689329
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286
• Editor: Anderson Clare, Frykman Niklas, Heerma Van Voss Lex, Rediker Marcus