Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions
A Global History, c. 1750–1830

Reveals new connections between war, revolution and forced migration in an era usually associated with a quest for liberty.

Jan C. Jansen (Edited by), Kirsten McKenzie (Edited by)

9781009370547, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 May 2024

316 pages
23.5 x 15.8 x 2.1 cm, 0.59 kg

'A skillful and important collection, this book has much to offer both those interested specifically in the period and those concerned more generally with global history. Thanks to the latter, the book is unusual in being a collection of essays that in many respects is more than a sum of its parts.' Jeremy Black, Nuova Antologia Militare

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.

1. Introduction Jan C. Jansen and Kirsten McKenzie
2. Exile and opportunity: Wabanaki, Acadian, and loyalist forced migration in the Northeastern Borderlands of North America Liam Riordan
3. (Un-)Settling exile: imagining outposts of the French emigration across the globe Friedemann Pestel
4. Revolution, war, and punitive relocations across the Spanish empire: the 1790s in context Christian G. De Vito
5. All at sea: prisoner of war mobilities and the British imperial world, 1793–1815 Anna McKay
6. The legion of the damned: Britain's military deployment of convict labor in the Atlantic world, 1766–1826 Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Brad Manera
7. New Orleans between Atlantic and Caribbean: reinterpreting the Saint-Domingue migration Nathalie Dessens
8. Registration and deportation: refugees, regimes of proof, and the law in Jamaica, 1791–1828 Jan C. Jansen
9. Political removal: exile, press freedom, and subjecthood in Britain, the Cape Colony, and Bengal Kirsten McKenzie
10. Crossing the Mediterranean in the age of revolutions: the multiple mobilities of the 1820s Maurizio Isabella
11. The Chacay massacre: exile, the Mapuche, and border formation in Chile and the Río de la Plata, 1810–1834 Edward Blumenthal
12. The ex-emperor in exile: Mexico's Agustín de Iturbide in London, 1824 Karen Racine
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Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]