Empire and Underworld - Captivity in French Guiana

Informationen zum Autor Miranda Frances Spieler is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arizona. Klappentext The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen! but it also invented the noncitizen--the person whose rights were nonexistent. The South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for these outcasts of the new French citizenry! and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups. Zusammenfassung The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, but it also invented the noncitizen—the person whose rights were nonexistent. The South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for these outcasts of the new French citizenry, and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups.

Product details

• Authors: Miranda F. Spieler, Miranda Frances Spieler, Spieler Miranda Frances
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2012
• EAN: 9780674057548
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05754-8
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 242 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Harvard Historical Studies; Harvard Historical Studies (Ha; Harvard Historical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; History, HISTORY / Europe / France, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, c 1500 onwards to present day, Colonialism and imperialism, History of the Americas, French Guiana