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A global history of runaways : workers, mobility, and capitalism 1600-1850 /

"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, Ti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rediker, Marcus (Editor ), Chakraborty, Titas, 1983- (Editor ), Rossum, Matthias van, 1984- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Colección:California world history library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : flight as fight / Leo Lucassen, Lex Heerma van Voss
  • Runaways and deserters in the early modern Portuguese Empire : the examples of São Tomé island, South Asia and Southern Portugal / Timothy Coates
  • Escaping St. Thomas : Class relations and convict strategies in the Danish West Indies, 1672-1687 / Johan Heinsen
  • Between the mountains and the sea : knowledge, networks, and transimperial desertion in the Leeward archipelago, 1627-1727 / James F. Dator
  • Desertion of European sailors and soldiers in early eighteenth-century Bengal / Titas Chakraborty
  • "More dangerous for the colony than the enemy himself" : military labor, desertion, and imperial rule in French Louisiana (ca. 1715-1760) / Yevan Terrien
  • "Journeying into Freedom" : traditions of desertion at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795 / Nicole Ulrich
  • Running together or running apart? Diversity, desertion and resistance in the Dutch East India Company empire, 1650-1800 / Matthias van Rossum
  • Voting with their feet : absconding and labor exploitation in convict Australia / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Mmichael Quinlan
  • "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 Rossumupprecht
  • Lurking but working : city maroons in antebellum New Orleans / Mary Mitchell
  • Runaway slaves, vigilance committees, and the pedagogy of revolutionary abolitionism, 1835-1863 / Jesse Olsavsky