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Creating the Creole Island : slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius
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Creating the Creole Island : slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius / Megan Vaughan.
ISBN
082233402X (cloth : alk. paper)
0822333996 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Physical Description
xiv, 341 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 10, 2005
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-327) and index.
Contents
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
Métissage and revolution
Sugar, and abolition.
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