Desertion in the early modern world : a comparative history / edited by Matthias van Rossum and Jeannette Kamp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kamp, Jeannet van de, 1957- editor.

Rossum, Matthias van, 1984- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Desertion, Military--History.

Desertion, Military.

Military deserters--History.

Military deserters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"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, storehouses, 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 v. 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Desertion in global history

Europe

Atlantic and Maritime Asia

Between worlds.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474292931

1474292933

9781474216012

1474216013

OCLC:

935325695