Creating the Creole Island : Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius /
Mauritius was uninhabited until the arrival of the first colonists in the late 16th century. This book traces the history of immigration to the island & the complex creole society that developed from the mixing of European, African & Indian peoples.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- In the beginning
- Engineering a colony, 1735-1767
- Enlightenment colonialism and its limits, 1767-1789
- Roots and routes : ethnicity without origins
- A baby in the salt pans : mothering slavery
- Love in the torrid zone
- Reputation, recognition, and race
- Speaking slavery : language and loss
- Metissage and revolution
- Sugar, and abolition.