Creating the Creole Island - Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius

Informationen zum Autor Megan Vaughan is Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at Cambridge University. She is the author of several books including Cutting Down Trees: Gender, Nutrition, and Agricultural Change in the Northern Province of Zambia, 1890–1990 (with Henrietta L. Moore) and Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness. Klappentext A historical reconstruction of the making of a slave society in the Indian Ocean. Zusammenfassung A historical reconstruction of the making of a slave society in the Indian Ocean. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Preface xi 1. In the Beginning 1 2. Engineering a Colony, 1735–1767 33 3. Enlightenment Colonialism and Its Limits, 1767–1789 56 4. Roots and Routes: Ethnicity without Origins 91 5. A Baby in the Salt Pans: Mothering Slavery 123 6. Love in the Torrid Zone 152 7. Reputation, Recognition, and Race 178 8. Speaking Slavery: Language and Loss 202 9. Métissage and Revolution 229 10. Sugar and Abolition 253 Notes 277 Works Cited 305 Index 329

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• Authors: Megan Vaughan, Vaughan, Megan Vaughan
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2005
• EAN: 9780822334026
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3402-6
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries