Rebellion, Repression, Reinvention

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Rebellion, Repression, Reinvention Mutiny in Comparative Perspective

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Edited by Jane Hathaway

Foreword by Geoffrey Parker

ISBN: 0-275-97010-8

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97010-9

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304 pages, maps, photo, tables

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 7/30/2001

List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)

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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Endorsement From Caroline Finkel: Jane Hathaway has pulled together a truly impressive volume that throws much light not only on mutinies but also on the social politics and organizational cultures of armed forces. State-of-the-art scholarship covers a range that includes India and Jamaica under the British, the American Civil War, the two World Wars, and modern China. In a volume that is conceptually rich, there are also important discussions on the symbolism and remembering of mutiny, for example, the symbolism of slave mutiny. A first-rate collection that deserves widespread attention.
Endorsement From Jeremy Black
author of The Politics of James Bond: [This book] will challenge the preconceptions of military and other historians alike...Mutineers speak for themselves through the narratives in this collection. Thus we learn how they perceived their aims and the means by which they hoped to achieve them. We discover how they viewed themselves and chose to represent themselves and their discontents--as soliders or sailors pitted against unyielding officers, as subject of a distant ruler, as citizens expecting redress from a responsive government, or as a revolutionary vanguard.
Endorsement From Lorenzo M. Crowell
Associate Professor of History
Mississippi State University: It is a stimulating book in which the authors have made a major contribution to our understanding of mutiny in multi-contextual analysis. They have given us an expanded conception of mutiny from which further work can continue in this important area.

Description: This is the first book to address the topic of mutiny in and of itself, or to present mutiny in a comparative framework. The fourteen contributors, a mixture of military, social, and political historians, examine instances of mutiny that occurred from ancient to modern times and on nearly every continent. Their findings call into question standard definitions of mutiny, while shedding new light on the patterns that mutiny tends to take, as well as the interactions that can occur between mutinous soldiers and surrounding civilian societies. While standard definitions of mutiny emphasize mass defiance by rank-and-file soldiers of the orders of their military superiors, the essays here demonstrate that mutiny can often take other forms. Mutiny could consist of mass desertion, insurgency in the face of competing military and political authorities, or lengthy strings of strikes and assassinations against military and political superiors. The threat of mutiny, furthermore, could be as potent as an actual outbreak. Areas studied include early modern Europe, the Ottoman Empire, the antebellum United States, the British Empire, revolutionary Russia, the emerging nation-states of Latin America, imperial and Communist China, fascist Italy, war-torn Vietnam, and Nasser's Egypt. In the concluding section, contributors assess commemorations of mutiny and how they are modified or distorted in the process of their incorporation into official and popular memory.

Table of Contents:

Foreword by Geoffrey Parker
Introduction by Jane Hathaway
Problems in Defining Mutiny
Desertion as Mutiny: Upcountry Georgians in the Army of Tennessee by Mark A. Weitz
Mutineer Johnny? The Italian Partisan Movement as Mutiny by Victoria C. Belco
Mutiny and Empires
Ideology, Greed, and Social Discontent in Early Modern Europe: Mercenaries and Mutinies in the Rebellious Netherlands, 1568-1609 by David J.B. Trim
Mutinies on Anglo-Jamaica, 1656-1660 by Carla Gardina Pestana
Mutiny in British India
Vellore 1806: The Meanings of Mutiny by Devadas Moodley
Military Culture and Military Protest: The Bengal Europeans and the "White Mutiny" of 1859 by Peter Stanley
The Indian Army, Total War, and the Dog that Didn't Bark in the Night by Raymond Callahan
Muntiny in Emerging Nation-States
The Politics of Seduction: Mutiny and Desertion in Early Nineteenth-Century Córdoba by Seth Meisel
100 Fathers to None: Successs and Failure in Two Wuhan Mutinies, 1911 and 1967 by Christopher A. Reed
Naval Mutinies
Mutiny in the Destroyer Division of the Baltic Fleet, May-June 1918 by Anatol Shmelev
Austro-Hungarian Naval Mutinies of World War I by Lawrence Sondhaus
Mutiny Remebered, Recounted, Reinvented
The River Crossing: Breaking Points (Metaphorical and Real) in Ottoman Mutiny by Palmira Brummett
The Symbolism of Slave Mutiny: Black Abolitionist Responses to the Amistad and Creole Incidents by Roy E. Finkenbine
With God on Our Side: Scripting Nasser's Free Officer Mutiny by Joel Gordon
Index

LC Card Number: 00-052867

LCC Class: D214

Dewey Class: 306


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