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The Bloody Flag - Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution (Hardcover)
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The Bloody Flag - Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution (Hardcover)
Series: California World History Library, 30
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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.
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