By Johan Lund Heinsen
Arguing that the mutiny at the Merman was once knowledgeable via tales and hearsay that circulated on each side of the Atlantic and echoed at the reduce deck of the send itself, Johan Heinsen explores the position of such tales within the social worlds of early smooth colonialism. He argues that websites comparable to ships, colonies or even prisons resonated with phrases, paying specific awareness to how such storytelling created bonds and enabled motion. In making the purpose that historians may still pay cautious consciousness to the ability of the phrases of colonial and maritime reduce classification topics, Heinsen attracts on similar situations around the early glossy seas.
Heinsen's research brings the Danish Empire to a brand new Anglophone viewers, increasing our wisdom of the Atlantic international. It brings a desirable new standpoint to themes equivalent to the heritage of penal transportation, coerced labour and historiographies of storytelling and hearsay, making it a tremendous e-book for college kids and students of Atlantic, maritime, imperial and international labour history.
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