Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius

"Creating the Creole Islandis a riveting portrait of a slave-owning society. Megan Vaughan's elegant narrative combines rich and ground-breaking historical analysis with acute theorizing of human subjectivity. It will be of compelling interest to anyone concerned with the emergence of our modern 'creole' world."-Michael Lambek, author ofThe Weight of the Past: Living with History in Mahajanga, MadagascarMegan Vaughan is the author of 'Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius', published 2005 under ISBN 9780822334026 and ISBN 082233402X.