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Challenges standard definitions of mutiny while revealing the patterns mutiny takes and the manner in which it affects a society.

Table of 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

About the Author

Jane Hathaway is associate professor of Islamic and world history at the Ohio State University.

Reviews

"[This book] will challenge the preconceptions of military and other historians alike...Mutineers speak for themselves through the narratives in this collection. Thus we learn how they perceived their aims and the means by which they hoped to achieve them. We discover how they viewed themselves and chose to represent themselves and their discontents--as soliders or sailors pitted against unyielding officers, as subject of a distant ruler, as citizens expecting redress from a responsive government, or as a revolutionary vanguard."-Jeremy Black author of The Politics of James Bond

"It is a stimulating book in which the authors have made a major contribution to our understanding of mutiny in multi-contextual analysis. They have given us an expanded conception of mutiny from which further work can continue in this important area."-Lorenzo M. Crowell Associate Professor of History Mississippi State University

"Jane Hathaway has pulled together a truly impressive volume that throws much light not only on mutinies but also on the social politics and organizational cultures of armed forces. State-of-the-art scholarship covers a range that includes India and Jamaica under the British, the American Civil War, the two World Wars, and modern China. In a volume that is conceptually rich, there are also important discussions on the symbolism and remembering of mutiny, for example, the symbolism of slave mutiny. A first-rate collection that deserves widespread attention."-Caroline Finkel