Megan Vaughan: 2 books
Creating the Creole Island
Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
The island of Mauritius lies in the middle of the Indian Ocean, about 550 miles east of Madagascar. Uninhabited until the arrival of colonists in the late sixteenth century, Mauritius was subsequently populated by many different peoples as successive waves of colonizers and slaves arrived at its shores....
Curing Their Ills
Colonial Power and African Illness
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2013
Curing their Ills traces the history of encounters between European medicine and African societies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Vaughan's detailed examination of medical discourse of the period reveals its shifting and fragmented nature, highlights its use in the creation of the colonial...