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

Scarr, Deryck

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9780865437371: Seychelles Since 1770: History of a Slave and Post-Slavery Society

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ISBN 10: 0865437378 ISBN 13: 9780865437371

Publisher: Africa World Pr, 1999

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A comprehensive history of the Seychelles, this volume traces its periods of colonisation by France and Britain, the immobile years of the twentieth century, the granting of independence in 1976, and the social changes precipitated by tourism in the late-1990s.

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'Scarr has produced an extremely readable ook on the history of the Seychelle islands. There has been little written on this subject that is available to a wider public outside the Seychelles A... he has amassed a considerable amount of material derived from sources far ad wide A... in bringing together such disparate sources, Scarr has been able to reconstruct an internal picture of Seychelles society during the period of slavery and post-slavery A... He has also masterfully captured the capriciousness of the Seychelles elite, as well as examining closely the nature and causes of their stranglehold over all aspects of life in the Seychelles under colonial rule.' --African Affairs

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'Scarr has produced an extremely readable book on the history of the Seychelle islands. ... He has also masterfully captured the capriciousness of the Seychelles elite ... under colonial rule.' - African Affairs

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