Global History of Runaways
Regular price
€92.99
america
britain
build foundation of economic order
capitalism required many workers
Category=JP
Category=JPF
Category=KCS
Category=KNX
Category=NHB
Category=NHTQ
collection of essays about runaways
compares and connects runaways
convicts
denmark
domestic workers
eq_bestseller
eq_business-finance-law
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
france
global capitalisms long ascent
holland
igniting of civil war in us
indentured servants
laborers challenged that order
mughal
portugal
sailors
sixteen hundred to eighteen fifty
slaves
soldiers
undermining of danish colonization
workers ran away from bosses
Product details
- ISBN 9780520304352
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2019
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
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, 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 order—from the undermining of Danish colonization in the seventeenth century to the igniting of civil war in the United States in the nineteenth.
Marcus Rediker is Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh.
Titas Chakraborty is Assistant Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University.
Matthias van Rossum is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
Titas Chakraborty is Assistant Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University.
Matthias van Rossum is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.
