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Creating the Creole Island : slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius / Megan Vaughan.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vaughan, Megan, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Mauritius--History--18th century.
- Slavery.
- Multiracial people--Mauritius--History--18th century.
- Multiracial people.
- Creole dialects--Mauritius--History--18th century.
- Creole dialects.
- History.
- Mauritius--History--To 1810.
- Mauritius.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 341 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 082233402X
- 0822333996
- OCLC:
- 56104250
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