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Language: en
Pages: 341
Pages: 341
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-02 - Publisher: Duke University Press
DIVA historical reconstruction of the making of a slave society in the Indian Ocean./div
Language: en
Pages: 358
Pages: 358
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-11 - Publisher: Duke University Press
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 sixte
Language: en
Pages: 204
Pages: 204
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Vernon Press
"Ephemeral Coast - Visualizing Coastal Climate Change" considers the ways that art can offer a means through which to discover, analyze, re-imagine and re-frame
Language: en
Pages: 323
Pages: 323
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
European markets almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor until abolitionist campaigns began around 1800. Thereafter, importing Asia
Language: en
Pages: 379
Pages: 379
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
How a scholar's multilingual, multiracial background created a French medieval ideal.
Language: en
Pages: 321
Pages: 321
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
A gripping microhistory/legal case involving two generations of a French family enslaved in the Indian Ocean colonies.
Language: en
Pages: 304
Pages: 304
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press
Shows how feminist writing in British Romanticism developed alternatives to linear time. Feminist writers in British Romanticism often developed alternatives to
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-17 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
This volume examines the various ways in which islands (and groups of islands) contributed to the establishment, extension, and maintenance of the British Empir
Language: en
Pages: 239
Pages: 239
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-01 - Publisher: Rodopi
This book gives a fascinating account of the unique history of the national – creole – language of Mauritius and the process of standardization that it is u
Language: en
Pages: 425
Pages: 425
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-10-29 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
This book reflects an ongoing shift in the study of contact languages: After a period of history-free universalism, it directs the attention to the individual h
