The Bloody Flag
Mutiny in the Age of Atlantic Revolution
by Niklas Frykman
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Pub Date Sep 01 2020 | Archive Date May 11 2021
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Description
Mutiny tore like wildfire through the wooden warships of the age of revolution. While commoners across Europe laid siege to the nobility and enslaved workers put the torch to plantation islands, out on the oceans, naval seamen by the tens of thousands turned their guns on the quarterdeck and overthrew the absolute rule of captains. By the early 1800s, anywhere between one-third and one-half of all naval seamen serving in the North Atlantic had participated in at least one mutiny, many of them in several, and some even on ships in different navies. In The Bloody Flag, historian Niklas Frykman explores in vivid prose how a decade of violent conflict onboard gave birth to a distinct form of radical politics that brought together the egalitarian culture of North Atlantic maritime communities with the revolutionary era’s constitutional republicanism. The attempt to build a radical maritime republic failed, but the red flag that flew from the masts of mutinous ships survived to become the most enduring global symbol of class struggle, economic justice, and republican liberty to this day.
Advance Praise
"Deeply researched and superbly illustrated, Frykman's study of mutiny across British, Scandinavian, Dutch, and French navies, is groundbreaking, detailed, and rich in anecdote, offering fresh insights into life at sea during the late eighteenth century."—Margarette Lincoln, author of Trading in War: London's Maritime World in the Age of Cook and Nelson
"Frykman's account of the great age of mutiny is one of the most illuminating, accessible, and elegantly written works of maritime history in years. The revolutions afloat in the 1790s came to different ends, but The Bloody Flag shows that they were animated by shared grievances over the horrific treatment of common sailors and shaped by political ideas then in wide circulation."—Lincoln Paine, author of The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World
"Niklas Frykman spins a spellbinding yarn about the brave and mutinous motley crews who rose from the lower deck to challenge the global order and pose revolutionary solutions to the problems of their day. Brilliantly restoring to history a world-shaking maritime movement long divided, buried, and denied in narrow nationalist accounts of the past, The Bloody Flag forever transforms our vision of the Age of Revolution. This is history from below at its vivid, dramatic best."—Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780520355477 |
| PRICE | $32.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 304 |
