A global history of runaways : workers, mobility, and capitalism 1600-1850
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A global history of runaways : workers, mobility, and capitalism 1600-1850
(The California world history library, 28)
University of California Press, c2019
- : cloth
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-246) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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 Sao Tome 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
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Index
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