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Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius
Megan Vaughan
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Description for Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius
Paperback. A historical reconstruction of the making of a slave society in the Indian Ocean. Num Pages: 360 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1HFG; GTB; HBG; HBLL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 307 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists in the late sixteenth century, Mauritius was subsequently populated by many different peoples as successive waves of colonizers and slaves arrived at its shores. The French ruled the island from the early eighteenth century until the early nineteenth. Throughout the 1700s, ships brought men and women from France to build the colonial population and from Africa and India as slaves. In Creating the Creole Island, the distinguished historian Megan Vaughan traces the complex and contradictory social ... Read more
The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists in the late sixteenth century, Mauritius was subsequently populated by many different peoples as successive waves of colonizers and slaves arrived at its shores. The French ruled the island from the early eighteenth century until the early nineteenth. Throughout the 1700s, ships brought men and women from France to build the colonial population and from Africa and India as slaves. In Creating the Creole Island, the distinguished historian Megan Vaughan traces the complex and contradictory social ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
549g
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822333999
SKU
V9780822333999
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About Megan Vaughan
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.
Reviews for Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius
[P]owerful set of arguments about what it means to be a slave. . . . [A] compellingly detailed tale. . . . This is an important book of huge interest to Mauritian specialists and historians of the slave trade and slavery elsewhere, as well as scholars interested in questions of gender and identity.
Clare Anderson
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Clare Anderson
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