Mobility and coercion in an age of wars and revolutions : a global history, c. 1750-1830 / edited by Jan C. Jansen, Kirsten McKenzie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jansen, Jan C., editor.

McKenzie, Kirsten, 1970- editor.

Series:

Publications of the German Historical Institute

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forced migration--History.

Forced migration.

Exile (Punishment)--History.

Exile (Punishment).

War and civilization--History.

War and civilization.

Revolutions--History.

Revolutions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

The political upheavals and military confrontations that rocked the world during the decades around 1800 saw forced migrations on a massive scale. This global history brings this explosion into full view. Rather than describing coerced mobilities as an aberration in a period usually identified with quests for liberty and political participation, this book recognizes them as a crucial but hitherto under-appreciated dimension of the transformations underway. Examining the global movements of enslaved persons, soldiers, convicts, and refugees across land and sea, Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions presents a deeply entangled history. The book explores the binaries of 'free' and 'unfree' mobility, analyzing the agency and resistance of those moved against their will. It investigates the importance of temporary destinations and the role of expulsion and deportation and exposes the contours of a world of moving subjects integrated by overlaps, interconnections, and permeable boundaries. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

Contents:

Introduction / Jan C. Jansen and Kirsten McKenzie

Exile and opportunity : Wabanaki, Acadian, and Loyalist forced migration in the Northeastern borderlands of North America / Liam Riordan

(Un-)settling exile : imagining outposts of the French emigration across the globe / Friedemann Pestel

Revolution, war, and punitive relocations across the Spanish empire : the 1790s in context / Christian G. De Vito

All at sea : prisoner of war mobilities and the British imperial world, 1793-1815 / Anna McKay

The legion of the damned : Britain's military deployment of convict labor in the Atlantic world, 1766-1826 / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Brad Manera

New Orleans between Atlantic and Caribbean : reinterpreting the Saint-Dominique migration / Nathalie Dessens

Registration and deportation : refugees, regimes of proof, and the law in Jamaica, 1791-1828 / Jan C. Jansen

Political removal : exile, press freedom, and subjecthood in Britain, the Cape Colony, and Bengal / Kirsten McKenzie

Crossing the Mediterranean in the age of revolutions : the multiple mobilities of the 1820s / Maurizio Isabella

The Chacay massacre : exile, the Mapuche, and border formation in Chile and the Río de la Plata, 1810-1834 / Edward Blumenthal

The ex-emperor in exile : Mexico's Agustín de Iturbide in London, 1824 / Karen Racine

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 May 2024).

ISBN:

9781009370554

1009370553

9781009370561

1009370561

9781009370578

100937057X

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access