Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions
Jansen, Jan C. (Eberhard-Karls-Universitat Tubingen, Germany) / McKenzie, Kirsten (University of Sydney) The political upheavals and military confrontations that rocked the world during the decades around 1800 saw forced migrations on a massive scale. This global history brings this explosion into full view. Rather than describing coerced mobilities as an aberration in a period usually identified with quests for liberty and political participation, this book recognizes them as a crucial but hitherto under-appreciated dimension of the transformati...