[D66] A Global History of Runaways

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https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520304369/a-global-history-of-runaways

A Global History of Runaways
Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism, 1600–1850

    by Marcus Rediker (Editor), Titas Chakraborty (Editor), Matthias van
Rossum (Editor)
    July 2019
    First Edition
    Hardcover
    $95.00,  £74.00
    Paperback
    $34.95,  £27.00
    eBook
    $34.95,  £27.00
    Series
    California World History Library
    Title Details

    Rights: Available worldwide
    Pages: 266
    ISBN: 9780520304369
    Trim Size: 6 x 9
    Illustrations: 6 maps, 18 b/w illustrations, 5 tables


About the Book

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.

About the Author

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.