Bøker av Deryck Scarr

The Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Bourbon and their satellite colony of Seychelles, collectively known as the Mascareignes, were all plantation colonies, as well as significant naval bases from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.

The Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Bourbon and their satellite colony of Seychelles, collectively known as the Mascareignes, were all plantation colonies, as well as significant naval bases from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.

A consideration of the past and present Pacific Islands, wide-ranging in time and space. Indigenous social, economic and political systems are examined and then the post-16th-century European "discovery" of the Pacific. Cultural, trading and personal exchanges in island worlds are analyzed.