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"Offering a bold new vision of the age of revolutions, this global history highlights the intersection of war, empire and forced migration in a period usually identified with a quest for liberty and political participation. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core"--
List 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).
Summary
Offering a bold new vision of the age of revolutions, this global history highlights the intersection of war, empire and forced migration in a period usually identified with a quest for liberty and political participation. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
