Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions: A Global History, c. 1750–1830(Publications of the German Historical Institute)

The political upheavals and military confrontations that rocked the world during the decades around 1800 saw forced migrations on a massive scale. This global history brings this explosion into full view. Rather than describing coerced mobilities as an aberration in a period usually identified with quests for liberty and political participation, this book recognizes them as a crucial but hitherto under-appreciated dimension of the transformations underway. Examining the global movements of enslaved persons, soldiers, convicts, and refugees across land and sea, Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions presents a deeply entangled history. The book explores the binaries of 'free' and 'unfree' mobility, analyzing the agency and resistance of those moved against their will. It investigates the importance of temporary destinations and the role of expulsion and deportation and exposes the contours of a world of moving subjects integrated by overlaps, interconnections, and permeable boundaries. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction Jan C. Jansen and Kirsten McKenzie; 2. Exile and opportunity: Wabanaki, Acadian, and loyalist forced migration in the Northeastern Borderlands of North America Liam Riordan; 3. (Un-)Settling exile: imagining outposts of the French emigration across the globe Friedemann Pestel; 4. Revolution, war, and punitive relocations across the Spanish empire: the 1790s in context Christian G. De Vito; 5. All at sea: prisoner of war mobilities and the British imperial world, 1793–1815 Anna McKay; 6. The legion of the damned: Britain's military deployment of convict labor in the Atlantic world, 1766–1826 Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Brad Manera; 7. New Orleans between Atlantic and Caribbean: reinterpreting the Saint-Domingue migration Nathalie Dessens; 8. Registration and deportation: refugees, regimes of proof, and the law in Jamaica, 1791–1828 Jan C. Jansen; 9. Political removal: exile, press freedom, and subjecthood in Britain, the Cape Colony, and Bengal Kirsten McKenzie; 10. Crossing the Mediterranean in the age of revolutions: the multiple mobilities of the 1820s Maurizio Isabella; 11. The Chacay massacre: exile, the Mapuche, and border formation in Chile and the Río de la Plata, 1810–1834 Edward Blumenthal; 12. The ex-emperor in exile: Mexico's Agustín de Iturbide in London, 1824 Karen Racine; Select Readings.

About the Author :
Jan C. Jansen is Professor of Modern History at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He works on the comparative history of European empires and decolonization and is leading a major research project on refugee movements during the Atlantic Age of Revolutions. His publications include Decolonization: A Short History (2017) and Refugee Crises, 1945–2000 (2020). Kirsten McKenzie is Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Australia, and Director of the Vere Gordon Childe Centre. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the Royal Historical Society. She works on scandal, imposture, and politics in the British empire in the nineteenth century. Her books include Scandal in the Colonies (2004), A Swindler's Progress (2009 and 2010) and Imperial Underworld (2016).

Review :
'A skillful and important collection, this book has much to offer both those interested specifically in the period and those concerned more generally with global history. Thanks to the latter, the book is unusual in being a collection of essays that in many respects is more than a sum of its parts.' Jeremy Black, Ler Historia '… presents and substantiates a strong methodological case.' Conor Muller, International Review of Social History 'A skillful and important collection, this book has much to offer both those interested specifically in the period and those concerned more generally with global history.' Jeremy Black, The NYMAS Review 'A skillful and important collection, this book has much to offer both those interested specifically in the period and those concerned more generally with global history. Thanks to the latter, the book is unusual in being a collection of essays that in many respects is more than a sum of its parts.' Jeremy Black, Nuova Antologia Militare