Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana PDF
Preview Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana
harvard historical studies • 174 Published under the auspices of the Department of History from the income of the Paul Revere Frothingham Bequest Robert Louis Stroock Fund Henry Warren Torrey Fund Empire and Underworld Captivity in French Guiana Miranda Frances Spieler Harvard University Press Cambridge, Mas sa chu setts • London, England 2012 Copyright © 2012 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Spieler, Miranda Frances, 1971– Empire and underworld : captivity in French Guiana / Miranda Frances Spieler. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-674-05754-8 (alk. paper) 1. French Guiana—Politics and government—To 1814. 2. French Guiana—Politics and government—1814–1947. 3. French Guiana—Social conditions. 4. Captivity—French Guiana—History. 5. Power (Social sciences)—French Guiana—History. 6. Political violence—French Guiana—History. 7. Minorities—French Guiana—History. 8. Marginality, Social—French Guiana—History. 9. French Guiana—Colonial influence. I. Title. F2462.S69 2012 988.2—dc23 2012017838 In memory of my grandmothers Tillie Friedberg and Fanny Spieler Contents Map: French Guiana, 1789–1870 x Introduction 1 1. Leaving the Republic 17 2. Strange Dominion 38 3. Free Soil 60 4. Missing Persons 81 5. Idea for a Continent 111 6. Local Arrangements 134 7. The Enormous Room 160 8. Metastasis 190 Conclusion 219 Appendix 225 Notes 231 Acknowledgments 277 Index 279 Empire and Underworld
The list of books you might like
