James H Sweet

Mutiny on the Black Prince

Slavery, Piracy, and the Limits of Liberty in the Revolutionary Atlantic World

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Produktbeschreibung

The dramatic story of a mutiny aboard an eighteenth-century British ship and how its owners effectively rallied the power of the British Crown to protect their investment and expand their wealth and political power across multiple generations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 163mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9780197692721
• ISBN-10: 0197692729
• Artikelnr.: 70146665

Autorenporträt

James H. Sweet is the Vilas-Jartz Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of the prize-winning author of Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770 and Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World. He is a past president of the American Historical Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Masters of Ships
Chapter 2: Blunt Tars
Chapter 3: The Politics of the Sea
Chapter 4: Old Calabar
Chapter 5: The Black Prince
Chapter 6: Liberty?
Chapter 7: Diplomacy
Conclusion: Afterlives
Notes
Bibliography
Index