The Bloody Flag

Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution Volume 30
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-520-35547-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 304 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 580 g

Reihe: California World History Library

The global legacy of mutiny and revolution on the high seas.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frykman, Niklas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Niklas Frykman is Assistant Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh.