Rebellion, repression, reinvention: mutiny in comparative perspective (Google eBook)

Jane Hathaway

Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001 - History - 282 pages

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

• IV: 3
• V: 25
• VI: 45
• VII: 47
• VIII: 63
• IX: 85
• X: 87
• XI: 103
• XII: 119
• XIII: 129
• XIV: 131
• XV: 145
• XVI: 167
• XVII: 169
• XVIII: 195
• XIX: 213
• XX: 215
• XXI: 233
• XXII: 253
• XXIII: 273
• XXIV: 281

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About the author

JANE HATHAWAY is associate professor of Islamic and world history at The Ohio State University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Rebellion, repression, reinvention: mutiny in comparative perspective; ABC-Clio ebook
• Editor: Jane Hathaway
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001
• ISBN: 0275970108, 9780275970109
• Length: 282 pages
• Subjects: History / Military / General