Megan Vaughan

Creating the Creole Island

Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius

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Produktbeschreibung

A historical reconstruction of the making of a slave society in the Indian Ocean.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9780822333999
• ISBN-10: 0822333996
• Artikelnr.: 22417029

Autorenporträt

Megan Vaughan

Inhaltsangabe

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