Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions

A Global History, c. 1750–1830

Jan C. Jansen, Kirsten McKenzie

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2024
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781009370561
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

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

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Maps
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Exile and Opportunity: Wabanaki, Acadian, and Loyalist Forced Migration in the Northeastern Borderlands of North America
• 3 (Un-)Settling Exile: Imagining Outposts of the French Emigration across the Globe
• 4 Revolution, War, and Punitive Relocations across the Spanish Empire: The 1790s in Context
• 5 All at Sea: Prisoner of War Mobilities and the British Imperial World, 1793–1815
• 6 The Legion of the Damned: Britain’s Military Deployment of Convict Labor in the Atlantic World, 1766–1826
• 7 New Orleans between Atlantic and Caribbean: Reinterpreting the Saint-Domingue Migration
• 8 Registration and Deportation: Refugees, Regimes of Proof, and the Law in Jamaica, 1791–1828
• 9 Political Removal: Exile, Press Freedom, and Subjecthood in Britain, the Cape Colony, and Bengal
• 10 Crossing the Mediterranean in the Age of Revolutions: The Multiple Mobilities of the 1820s
• 11 The Chacay Massacre: Exile, the Mapuche, and Border Formation in Chile and the Río de la Plata, 1810–1834
• 12 The Ex-Emperor in Exile: Mexico’s Agustín de Iturbide in London, 1824
• Select Readings
• Index