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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2011
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Harvard Historical Studies ; 174
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 2 maps, 2 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • 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