Desertion in the Early Modern World
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Desertion in the Early Modern World

A Comparative History

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Desertion in the Early Modern World

A Comparative History

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Early modern globalization was built on a highly labour intensive infrastructure. This book looks at the millions of workers who were needed to operate the ships, ports, store houses, forts and factories crucial to local and global exchange. These sailors, soldiers, craftsmen and slaves were crucial to globalization but were also confronted with the process of globalization themselves. They were often migrants who worked, directly or indirectly, for trading companies, merchants and producers that tried to discipline and control their labour force. The contributors to this volume offer an integrated, thematic study of the global history of desertion in European, Atlantic and Asian contexts. By tracing and comparing acts and patterns of desertion across empires, economic systems, regions and types of workers, Desertion in the Early Modern World illuminates the crucial role of practices of desertion among workers in shaping the history of imperial and economic expansion in the early modern period.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2016
ISBN
9781474216012
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Early Modern History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover page
  2. Halftitle page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. CONTENTS
  6. FIGURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
  7. TABLES
  8. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  9. Desertion in Global History
  10. Europe
  11. Atlantic and Maritime Asia
  12. 5 Desertion by Sailors, Slaves and Soldiers in the Dutch Atlantic, c. 1600–1800
  13. 6 ‘Working for the Devil’: Desertion in the Eurasian Empire of the VOC
  14. Between Worlds
  15. 7 Just Deserters: Runaway Slaves from the VOC Cape, c. 1700–1800
  16. 8 From Contracts to Labour Camps? Desertion and Control in South Asia
  17. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  18. INDEX OF PLACES
  19. SUBJECT INDEX