Author: Charles Grant de VauxPublisher:
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Category : Mauritius
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The history of Mauritius, or the Isle of France, and the neighbouring islands
Author: Charles Grant de VauxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mauritius
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The History of Mauritius, Or the Isle of France and the Neighbouring Islands; from Their First Discovery to the Present Time
Author: Baron GrantCreating the Creole Island
Author: Megan VaughanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822333999
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
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 sixteenth century, Mauritius was subsequently populated by many different peoples as successive waves of colonizers and slaves arrived at its shores. The French ruled the island from the early eighteenth century until the early nineteenth. Throughout the 1700s, ships brought men and women from France to build the colonial population and from Africa and India as slaves. In Creating the Creole Island, the distinguished historian Megan Vaughan traces the complex and contradictory social relations that developed on Mauritius under French colonial rule, paying particular attention to questions of subjectivity and agency. Combining archival research with an engaging literary style, Vaughan juxtaposes extensive analysis of court records with examinations of the logs of slave ships and of colonial correspondence and travel accounts. The result is a close reading of life on the island, power relations, colonialism, and the process of cultural creolization. Vaughan brings to light complexities of language, sexuality, and reproduction as well as the impact of the French Revolution. Illuminating a crucial period in the history of Mauritius, Creating the Creole Island is a major contribution to the historiography of slavery, colonialism, and creolization across the Indian Ocean.
The Encyclopedia Britannica
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ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
Book Description
Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage
Author: Michelle L. StefanoPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843839741
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This volume provides a variety of international perspectives on these issues, exploring how holistic and integrated approaches to safeguarding ICH offer an opportunity to move beyond the rhetoric of UNESCO; in partiular, the authors demonstrate that the alternative methods and attitudes that frequently exist at a local level can be the most effective way of safeguarding ICH.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Hugh ChisholmPublisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
The Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: Hugh ChisholmPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
The Encyclopædia Britannica
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
The Encyclopædia Britannica: Lord Chamberlain-Mecklenberg
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1068
Book Description
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