Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of Revolution
A Global Survey

This volume explores mutiny and maritime radicalism in its full geographic extent during the Age of Revolution.

Clare Anderson (Edited by), Niklas Frykman (Edited by), Lex Heerma van Voss (Edited by), Marcus Rediker (Edited by)

9781107689329, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 December 2013

286 pages
22.7 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.41 kg

This volume explores the transnational dimensions of mutiny and maritime radicalism during the great cycle of war and revolution that began in the mid-1750s and continued until the 1840s. The central theme of the volume is mutiny - its causes, frequency, forms, patterns and outcomes - charting, linking and comparing maritime insurrections in different oceans, on warships, merchant vessels and convict ships. The contributions concentrate on the mutineers themselves, their social composition, self-organisation, objectives and ideas. Also included is unrest in port cities, sites of international exchange between maritime and landed forms of resistance. Sailors spent significant amounts of time in port, sometimes connecting shipboard unrest and radical movements on land in personal, political and social ways. The contributions cover the age of revolution in its full geographic extent, including the Atlantic with its wars and revolutions, but also the Indian and Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea.

1. Introduction Clare Anderson, Niklas Frykman, Lex Heerma van Voss and Marcus Rediker
2. The African origins of the Amistad rebellion, 1839 Marcus Rediker
3. Orangism, patriotism and slavery in Curacao, 1795–6 Karwan Fatah-Black
4. International radicalism, local solidarities: the 1797 British naval mutinies in Southern African waters Nicole Ulrich
5. Connections between mutinies in European navies Niklas Frykman
6. 'Amok!': Mutinies and slaves on Dutch East Indiamen in the 1780s Matthias van Rossum
7. Maritime radicalism and the origins of the age of revolution Chris Magra
8. 'Lord of the Forecastle': Serangs, Tindals and Lascar mutiny, c.1780–1860 Aaron Jaffer
9. 'Those lads contrived a plan': attempts at mutiny on Australian bound convict vessels Hamish Maxwell-Stewart
10. Cutting out and taking liberties: Australia's transported convict pirates, 1790–1829 Ian Duffield
11. The age of revolution in the Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal and South China Sea: a maritime perspective Clare Anderson
12. 'All we have done, we have done for freedom': the Creole slave ship revolt (1841) and the revolutionary Atlantic Anita Rupprecht.

Subject Areas: Social & cultural history [HBTB], Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 [HBLL], Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH]