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The age of revolution in the Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, and South China Sea : A maritime perspective
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posted on 2014-03-20, 10:58 authored by Clare AndersonThis essay explores the history of empire and rebellion from a seaborne perspective, through a focus on convict-ship mutiny in the Indian Ocean. It will show that the age of revolution did not necessarily spread outward from Europe and North America into colonies and empires, but rather complex sets of interconnected phenomena circulated regionally and globally in all directions. Convict transportation and mutiny formed a circuit that connected together imperial expansion and native resistance. As unfree labour, convicts might be positioned in global histories of the Industrial Revolution. And, as mutinous or insurgent colonial subjects, they bring together the history of peasant unrest and rebellion in south Asia with piracy in south-east Asia and the Pearl River delta. A subaltern history of convict transportation in the Indian Ocean thus has much to offer for an understanding of the maritime dimensions of the age of revolution.
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International Review of Social History, 2013, 58 (Special Issue S21), pp. 229 - 251Author affiliation
/Organisation/COLLEGE OF ARTS, HUMANITIES AND LAW/School of HistoryPublished in
International Review of Social HistoryPublisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP) for Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenisissn
0020-8590eissn
1469-512XCopyright date
2013Available date
2014-09-06Publisher DOI
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