When Britain seized the Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Bourbon and the later-settled satellite of Seychelles (collectively known as the Mascareignes) during the Napoleonic War, after outlawing the slave trade itself, it became a question whether the British anti-slave-trade statutes should be applied in the former French island. Enduring questions arose as to whether the new British administrators of Mauritius and Seychelles, who often became slave and plantation owners themselves, winked at the illegal slave trade and whether they were permitted to do so by the British government. This book is an in-depth study of slave plantations, law courts, and the illegal slave trade in the Southwest Indian Ocean.

Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean

History

scarr,deryck

Africa

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

A book about the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space spanning the centuries from the first settlement of the islands until the present day.

A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages Through Tropical Time

Americas

A History of the Pacific Islands

A History of the Pacific Islands: Passages through Tropical Time

Reference

Routledge

The History of the Pacific Islands: Kingdoms of the Reefs

This is a survey of human history in the Pacific islands, from the beginnings of recorded time until the present day. To tell the story of humankind across the great expanse of the Pacific is a daunting task. This book considers how indigenous societies came to be established and the tales that native people told of that history. It goes on to describe their attempts to incorporate and then come to terms with Western influence. This book is designed to be of interest to undergraduate students of history and anthropology.

Intl Specialized Book Services

Macmillan Co. of Australia

Seychelles Since 1770: History of a Slave and Post-Slavery Society

Africa World Pr

<p>"Seychelles has hitherto had no definitive scholarly history and Deryck Scarr's engagingly written Seychelles since 1770 goes a long way to rectify this omission. This archipelago in the Indian Ocean was first colonised by France but ruled for much longer by the British, and it is home to a distinctive society that was once dominated by Francophone planters wedded to the institution of slavery. These Grand Blancs fought a long rearguard action, after their former slaves become a Creole underclass, against both reactionary and reforming British officials. With independence the game only became more complicated and dangerous." "Scarr disposes of many myths of Seychelles being, for instance, a peculiarly harmonious colonial society with all questions of social and political distinction based on colour being erased by miscegenation. He recounts the evolution of the society, originally an offshoot of Mauritius and Reunion, the immobile years of the earlier twentieth century, the post-war surge for social welfare, the granting of independence in 1976 under President J.R.M. Mancham, the changes precipitated by tourism, and the coup of 1977 which brought Albert Rene to power, with its aftermath."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved</p>

Fiji: A Short History

Australia & Oceania

Allen& Unwin

Some fifteen hundred years before the birth of Christ, voyaging people first reached the group of islands in the Pacific we now know as Fiji. Today, an independent state for thirteen years after nearly a century of British colonial rule, their homeland is shared by others besides those original Polynesian settlers, and its history reflects the circumstances of their arrival and involvement. The original settlers lived in communication with Tonga and Samoa, invoking deified ancestors to control their environment, installing great chiefs who were themselves living gods, harvesting land and sea and startling their neighbours with their ferocity in battle. In the early nineteenth century the first European traders began to arrive, together with Wesleyan and Catholic missionaries: European residents increased in number, traders and cotton planters seeking to control land and labour, until in the early 1870s outside interference led to the failure of a new mixed race independent government and put the Islands into the hands of Britain. British rule in Fiji led to the introduction of an Indian labour component in the population to maintain a new sugar industry. Over the next hundred years this transformed both the economy and the demography of Fiji; for most of the present century Fiji's history has been dominated by Indians' demand for equal political rights, Fijians' desire to sustain an autonomous way of life, and Europeans' ambition to retain dominance. Since independence in 1970, consensus in the interests of nation-building has been a major goal.

Fiji A Short History

George Allen Unwin

Brigham Young Univ Inst Polynesian

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