The Mauritius Command (The Aubrey/Maturin Series, Volume 4)
8 cassettes
Mauritius (Illustrated)
Product Dimensions: 29x 22x4 cm., map A commemorative volume that, between its covers, gives a compressive over view of the Island. The chapters form a series of essays written by distinguished gentlemen who have had a long serving redaction with Mauritius. The chapters cover the history, geology and topography, the extinct birds, the fauna, the economic flora, the Creole folklore, people and politics, scenery, sports, fishes, climate, the chamber of agriculture, the sugar industry, the aloe fiber industry, the ream industry, law and government, railways, ecclesiastical, education, architecture and the commercial Port Louis of Mauritius. A very informative and complete book on Mauritius at the turn of the century. The book is full of photographs that well illustrate the essays.
Le Malaise Creole: Ethinic Identity in Mauritius (New Directions in Anthropology)
by Rosabelle Boswell
from Berghahn Books
Storm and Conquest: The Clash of Empires in the Eastern Seas, 1809
by Stephen Taylor
from W. W. Norton
This is history, not fiction; but the story is pure Patrick O'Brian, with special effects out of The Perfect Storm.
The Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson's navy and France. At stake was Britain's commercial lifeline to India—and its strategic capacity to wage war in Europe.
In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime power since Trafalgar was destroyed. In bringing home Bengali saltpeter for the Peninsular campaign with military and civilian passengers, Britain lost fourteen of her great Indiamen, either sunk or taken by enemy frigates. Many hundreds of lives were lost, and the East India Company was shaken to its foundations. The focus of these disasters, military and meteorological, was a tiny French outpost in mid-ocean—the island known as Mauritius.
This is the story of that season. It brings together the terrifying ordeal of men, women, and children caught at sea in hurricanes, and those who survived to take up the battle to drive the French from the Eastern seas. Mauritius must be taken at any cost. 8 pages of color, 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations; 4 maps.
Spectrum Guide to Mauritius (Spectrum Guides)
from Interlink Publishing Group
A Concise History of Dutch Mauritius, 1598-1711
The island of Mauritius is well known for its ebony and its rare species of animals. Less is known, however, about the Dutch East India Company that occupied the Indian Ocean Island twice between 1598 and 1711. Based on a comprehensive search of the company's archives, this book gives the first full account of the Dutch settlement of Mauritius.
History of Mauritius, or the Isles of France and the Neighboring Islands
Dimensions: 25x18.5x3.2 cm.
The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope: Volume 1
by François Le Guat
from Adamant Media Corporation
Edited by Pasfield Oliver. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1891 edition by the Hakluyt Society, London.
The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse, to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope: Volume 2
by François Le Guat
from Adamant Media Corporation
Edited by Pasfield Oliver. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1891 edition by the Hakluyt Society, London.
Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius
by Megan Vaughan
from Duke University Press
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.
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