Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions - A Global History, c. 1750–1830

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jansen Jan C. (Editor), Kirsten McKenzie (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.08.2025
• EAN: 9781009370530
• ISBN: 978-1-009-37053-0
• Illustrations: Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Migration, immigration and emigration, General and world history, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799