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Empire and Underworld : Captivity in French Guiana.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Historical StudiesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (295 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674062870
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Empire and UnderworldDDC classification:
  • 988.2
LOC classification:
  • F2462
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Map: French Guiana, 1789-1870 -- Introduction -- 1. Leaving the Republic -- 2. Strange Dominion -- 3. Free Soil -- 4. Missing Persons -- 5. Idea for a Continent -- 6. Local Arrangements -- 7. The Enormous Room -- 8. Metastasis -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, but it also invented the noncitizen--the person whose rights were nonexistent. The South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for these outcasts of the new French citizenry, and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups.
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Intro -- Contents -- Map: French Guiana, 1789-1870 -- Introduction -- 1. Leaving the Republic -- 2. Strange Dominion -- 3. Free Soil -- 4. Missing Persons -- 5. Idea for a Continent -- 6. Local Arrangements -- 7. The Enormous Room -- 8. Metastasis -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, but it also invented the noncitizen--the person whose rights were nonexistent. The South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for these outcasts of the new French citizenry, and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal groups.

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