Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora (Critical Perspectives on Empire) - Softcover
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A unique history of imperialism, language, and creolization in the largest African diaspora of the Indian Ocean.
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Pier M. Larson is Professor of African History at The Johns Hopkins University, USA. A cultural and intellectual historian with interests in social history, he specializes in early modern Madagascar, the Indian Ocean, slavery, religion, literacy, and the global African diasporas. He is the author of History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770–1822 (2000).
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