The Bloody Flag (eBook)

Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution

Niklas Frykman (Autor)

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2020
304 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97592-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Mutiny tore like wildfire through the wooden warships of the age of revolution. While commoners across Europe laid siege to the nobility and enslaved workers put the torch to plantation islands, out on the oceans, naval seamen by the tens of thousands turned their guns on the quarterdeck and overthrew the absolute rule of captains. By the early 1800s, anywhere between one-third and one-half of all naval seamen serving in the North Atlantic had participated in at least one mutiny, many of them in several, and some even on ships in different navies. In The Bloody Flag, historian Niklas Frykman explores in vivid prose how a decade of violent conflict onboard gave birth to a distinct form of radical politics that brought together the egalitarian culture of North Atlantic maritime communities with the revolutionary era’s constitutional republicanism. The attempt to build a radical maritime republic failed, but the red flag that flew from the masts of mutinous ships survived to become the most enduring global symbol of class struggle, economic justice, and republican liberty to this day.
 

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Like a Ship on Fire 
Chapter 1 • Barbaric Industry 
Chapter 2 • Who Will Command This Empire? 
Chapter 3 • Demons Dancing in a Furnace 
Chapter 4 • A Revolution in the Fleet 
Chapter 5 • To Clear the Quarterdeck
Conclusion: The Marine Republic 

Abbreviations 
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2020
• Reihe/Serie: California World History Library
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Age of Revolution • Atlantic History • atlantic revolution • British Navy • Capitalism • captains • Class struggle • constitutional republicanism • dutch navy • economic justice • Empire • french navy • insurrectionary • internationalism • late 18th century maritime history • maritime community • mutiny • naval seamen • Navy • Nobility • North Atlantic • Piracy • pirates • radical maritime republic • radical politics • Republican Liberty • scandinavian navy • shipboard mutiny • Siege • transnational • Violent conflict • war • Working Class
• ISBN-10: 0-520-97592-8 / 0520975928
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-97592-7 / 9780520975927