{"product_id":"a-global-history-of-runaways-workers-mobility-and-capitalism-16001850-28-california-world-history-library-9780520304352","title":"A Global History of Runaways Workers Mobility and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring global capitalism'slong ascent from 16001850, workers of all kindsslaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailorsrepeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. AGlobalHistoryof 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 orderfrom the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth.    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This remarkable collection of case studies extends the field of global migration history. Highly recommended.\" * CHOICE *\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations and Tables\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Flight as Fight\u003cbr\u003e Leo Lucassen and Lex Heerma van Voss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Runaways and Deserters in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire: The Examples of São Tomé Island, South Asia, and Southern Portugal\u003cbr\u003e Timothy Coates\u003cbr\u003e 2. Escaping St. Thomas: Class Relations and Convict Strategies in the Danish West Indies, 1672–1687\u003cbr\u003e Johan Heinsen\u003cbr\u003e 3. Between the Mountains and the Sea: Knowledge, Networks, and Transimperial Desertion in the Leeward Archipelago, 1627–1727\u003cbr\u003e James F. Dator\u003cbr\u003e 4. Desertion of European Sailors and Soldiers in Early Eighteenth- Century Bengal\u003cbr\u003e Titas Chakraborty\u003cbr\u003e 5. “More of a Danger to the Colony Than the Enemy Himself ”: Military Labor, Desertion, and Imperial Rule in French Louisiana (ca. 1715–1760)\u003cbr\u003e Yevan Terrien\u003cbr\u003e 6. “Journeying into Freedom”: Traditions of Desertion at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652–1795\u003cbr\u003e Nicole Ulrich\u003cbr\u003e 7. Running Together or Running Apart? Diversity, Desertion, and Resistance in the Dutch East India Company Empire, 1650–1800\u003cbr\u003e Matthias van Rossum\u003cbr\u003e 8. Voting with Their Feet: Absconding and Labor Exploitation in Convict Australia\u003cbr\u003e Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Michael Quinlan\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e Anita Rupprecht\u003cbr\u003e 10. Lurking but Working: City Maroons in Antebellum New Orleans\u003cbr\u003e Mary Niall Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e 11. Runaway Slaves, Vigilance Committees, and the Pedagogy of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1863\u003cbr\u003e Jesse Olsavsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Selected References\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Illustration Credits\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402919616855,"sku":"9780520304352","price":76.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-global-history-of-runaways-workers-mobility-and-capitalism-16001850-28-california-world-history-library-9780520304352","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}