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
Summary
Mauritius was uninhabited until the arrival of the first colonists in the late 16th century. This book traces the history of immigration to the island & the complex creole society that developed from the mixing of European, African & Indian peoples
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-327) and index
Notes
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL