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Creating the Creole Island : slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius / Megan Vaughan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vaughan, Megan.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- 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.
- Mauritius--History--To 1810.
- Mauritius.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (359 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A historical reconstruction of the making of a slave society in the Indian Ocean.
- 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
- Metissage and revolution
- Sugar, and abolition.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822386919
- 0822386917
- OCLC:
- 649910676
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