Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana by Miranda Frances Spieler

Empire and Underworld: Captivity in French Guiana

Harvard Historical Studies

Miranda Frances Spieler

296 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history politics emotional informative medium-paced
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In the century after the French Revolution, the South American outpost of Guiana became a depository for exiles--outcasts of the new French citizenry--and an experimental space for the exercise of new kinds of power and violence against marginal g...

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