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Creating the Creole Island : slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius

Title
  1. Creating the Creole Island : slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius / Megan Vaughan.
Published by
  1. Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Author
  1. Vaughan, Megan.

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Description
  1. xiv, 341 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
  1. Racially mixed people > Mauritius > History > 18th century
  2. Creole dialects > Mauritius > History > 18th century
  3. Mauritius > History > To 1810
  4. Slavery > Mauritius > History > 18th century
Contents
  1. 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.
Call number
  1. Sc E 06-257
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-327) and index.
Author
  1. Vaughan, Megan.
Title
  1. Creating the Creole Island : slavery in eighteenth-century Mauritius / Megan Vaughan.
Imprint
  1. Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-327) and index.
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  1. Table of contents
LCCN
  1. 2004015807
ISBN
  1. 082233402X (cloth : alk. paper)
  2. 0822333996 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. Sc E 06-257
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