Empire and Underworld : : Captivity in French Guiana / / Miranda Frances Spieler.
In the century after the French Revolution, the South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for exiles-outcasts of the new French citizenry-and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups. Miranda Spieler chronicles the encounter between...
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Spieler, Miranda Frances, author. Empire and Underworld : Captivity in French Guiana / Miranda Frances Spieler. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012] ©2011 1 online resource : 2 maps, 2 tables text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Harvard Historical Studies ; 174 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Leaving the Republic -- Chapter 2. Strange Dominion -- Chapter 3. Free Soil -- Chapter 4. Missing Persons -- Chapter 5. Idea for a Continent -- Chapter 6. Local Arrangements -- Chapter 7. The Enormous Room -- Chapter 8. Metastasis -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In the century after the French Revolution, the South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for exiles-outcasts of the new French citizenry-and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups. Miranda Spieler chronicles the encounter between colonial officials, planters, and others, ranging from deported political enemies to convicts, ex-convicts, vagabonds, freed slaves, non-European immigrants, and Maroons (descendants of fugitive slaves in the forest). She finds that at a time when France was advocating the revolutionary principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, Guiana's exiles were stripped of their legal identities and unmade by law, becoming nonpersons living in limbo.The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, but as Spieler shows, it also invented the noncitizen-the person whose rights were nonexistent. Empire and Underworld discovers in Guiana's wilderness a haunting prehistory of current moral dilemmas surrounding detainees of indeterminate legal status. Pairing the history of France with that of its underworld and challenging some of the century's most influential theorists from Hannah Arendt to Michel Foucault, Spieler demonstrates how rights of the modern world can mutate into an apparatus of human deprivation. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) Captivity French Guiana History. Marginality, Social French Guiana History. Minorities French Guiana History. Political violence French Guiana History. Power (Social sciences) French Guiana History. HISTORY / Europe / France. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012 9783110288995 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PACKAGE HISTORY; POLITICAL SCIENCE, SOCIOLOGY 2012 9783110293715 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK PAKET GESCHICHTE, POLITIKWISS., SOZIOLOGIE 2012 9783110288971 ZDB-23-DPS Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP Complete eBook Package 2011-2014 9783110374889 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package 2012 9783110374919 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442205 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459517 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2015 9783110662566 print 9780674057548 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674062870 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674062870.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Leaving the Republic -- Chapter 2. Strange Dominion -- Chapter 3. Free Soil -- Chapter 4. Missing Persons -- Chapter 5. Idea for a Continent -- Chapter 6. Local Arrangements -- Chapter 7. The Enormous Room -- Chapter 8. Metastasis -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Leaving the Republic -- Chapter 2. Strange Dominion -- Chapter 3. Free Soil -- Chapter 4. Missing Persons -- Chapter 5. Idea for a Continent -- Chapter 6. Local Arrangements -- Chapter 7. The Enormous Room -- Chapter 8. Metastasis -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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