Mutiny and Maritime Radicalism in the Age of Revolution: An Introduction

The essays collected in this volume demonstrate that during the age of revolution (1760s–1840s) most sectors of the maritime industries experienced higher levels of unrest than is usually recognized. Ranging across global contexts including the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans as well as the Car...

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Published in:International review of social history 2013-12, Vol.58 (S21), p.1-14
Main Authors: Frykman, Niklas, Anderson, Clare, Heerma van Voss, Lex, Rediker, Marcus
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
17th century
Age
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Archives & records
Atlantic Ocean
Authoritarianism
Caribbean
India
Indian Ocean
Literature
Maritime history
Maritime Industry
Mutinies
Mutiny
Pacific Ocean
Peoples Republic of China
Political Economy
Politics
Radical groups
Radicalism
Rebellions
Revolution
Revolutions
Seafarers
Slavery
Social history
South China Sea
War
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Summary:The essays collected in this volume demonstrate that during the age of revolution (1760s–1840s) most sectors of the maritime industries experienced higher levels of unrest than is usually recognized. Ranging across global contexts including the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans as well as the Caribbean, Andaman, and South China Seas, and exploring the actions of sailors, laborers, convicts, and slaves, this collection offers a fresh, sea-centered way of seeing the confluence between space, agency, and political economy during this crucial period. In this introduction we contend that the radicalism of the age of revolution can best be viewed as a geographically connected process, and that the maritime world was central to its multiple eruptions and global character. Mutiny therefore can be seen as part of something bigger and broader: what we have chosen to call maritime radicalism, a term as well as a concept that has had virtually no presence in the literature on the revolutionary era until now.
ISSN:0020-8590
1469-512X
DOI:10.1017/S0020859013000497