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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Weitere Verfasser: Rediker, Marcus (HerausgeberIn), Chakraborty, Titas, 1983- (HerausgeberIn), Rossum, Matthias van, 1984- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019]
Schriftenreihe:California world history library.
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 261 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9780520973060
0520973062