Full 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.
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
