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Mutiny in the Danish Atlantic World

Release on 2017-10-19 | by Johan Lund Heinsen

Author: Johan Lund Heinsen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781350027374
Category: History
Page: 240
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Mutiny in the Danish Atlantic World

*** Danish Historical Society Award Winner (2018) “Historical research result of the year” *** Mutiny in the Danish Atlantic World discusses how the storytelling of the lower classes shaped antagonisms and struggles for agency in the early modern Atlantic. It takes a mutiny carried out by a group of convicts and sailors on board a Danish ship, the Merman, in 1683 as its central case study. En route to Denmark's Caribbean colony of St. Thomas, the mutineers seized the ship, murdered the captain and six others and elected a former convict as their new leader. This event brought the West India Company to the brink of destruction and changed the course of the fledgling Danish maritime empire forever. Arguing that the mutiny on the Merman was informed by stories and rumour that circulated on both sides of the Atlantic and echoed on the lower deck of the ship itself, Johan Heinsen explores the role of such stories in the social worlds of early modern colonialism. He argues that sites such as ships, colonies and even prisons resonated with words, paying particular attention to how such storytelling created bonds and enabled action. In making the point that historians should pay careful attention to the power of the words of colonial and maritime lower class subjects, Heinsen draws on comparable cases across the early modern seas. Heinsen's study brings the Danish Empire to a new Anglophone audience, expanding our knowledge of the Atlantic world. It brings a fascinating new perspective to topics such as the history of penal transportation, coerced labour and historiographies of storytelling and rumour, making it an important book for students and scholars of Atlantic, maritime, imperial and global labour history.

Language: en
Pages: 240

Mutiny in the Danish Atlantic World

Authors: Johan Lund Heinsen

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-19 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Language: en
Pages: 280

Cultural Histories of Crime in Denmark, 1500 to 2000

Authors: Tyge Krogh, Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, Claus Bundgård Christensen

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-10-16 - Publisher: Routledge

Taking the kingdom of Denmark as its frame of reference, this volume presents a range of close analyses that shed light on the construction and deconstruction of crime and criminals, on criminal cultures and on crime control from 1500 to 2000. Historically, there have been major changes in the legal

Language: en
Pages: 266

A Global History of Runaways

Authors: Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, Matthias van Rossum

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-30 - Publisher: University of California Press

During global capitalism's long ascent from 1600–1850, workers of all kinds—slaves, indentured servants, convicts, domestic workers, soldiers, and sailors—repeatedly ran away from their masters and bosses, with profound effects. A Global History of Runaways, edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias van Rossum, compares and connects runaways in the