A global history of runaways : workers, mobility, and capitalism 1600-1850

Introduction : flight as fight / Leo Lucassen, Lex Heerma van Voss -- Runaways and deserters in the early modern Portuguese Empire : the examples of São Tomé island, South Asia and Southern Portugal / Timothy Coates -- Escaping St. Thomas : Class relations and convict strategies in the Danish West Indies, 1672-1687 / Johan Heinsen -- Between the mountains and the sea : knowledge, networks, and transimperial desertion in the Leeward archipelago, 1627-1727 / James F. Dator -- Desertion of European sailors and soldiers in early eighteenth-century Bengal / Titas Chakraborty -- "More dangerous for the colony than the enemy himself" : military labor, desertion, and imperial rule in French Louisiana (ca. 1715-1760) / Yevan Terrien -- "Journeying into Freedom" : traditions of desertion at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795 / Nicole Ulrich -- Running together or running apart? Diversity, desertion and resistance in the Dutch East India Company empire, 1650-1800 / Matthias van Rossum -- Voting with their feet : absconding and labor exploitation in convict Australia / Hamish Maxwell-Stewart,Mmichael Quinlan -- "He says that if he is not taught a trade, he will run away" : recaptured Africans, desertion and mobility in the British Caribbean, 1808-1828 / Anita Rossumupprecht -- Lurking but working : city maroons in antebellum New Orleans / Mary Mitchell -- Runaway slaves, vigilance committees, and the pedagogy of revolutionary abolitionism, 1835-1863 / Jesse Olsavsky.