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Ocean of Letters. Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora
by Larson, Pier M
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0521739578
- ISBN 13
- 9780521739573
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) 9780521739573. 228 x 151 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers; pp. xx + 378, incl. index; maps, illustrations, facsimiles in text. Fine condition. "Ocean of Letters is a remarkable history of imperialism, language, and creolization in the largest African diaspora of the Indian Ocean in the early modern period. Ranging from Madagascar to the Mascarenes, the Comores, and South Africa, Pier M. Larson sheds new light on the roles of slavery, emancipation, oceanic travel, Christian missions, and colonial linguistics in the making of Malagasy-language literacy in the islands of the western Indian Ocean." .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12062
- Title
- Ocean of Letters. Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora
- Author
- Larson, Pier M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0521739578
- ISBN 13
- 9780521739573
- Publisher
- (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) 9780521739573
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, England
- This edition first published
- 2009-05
- Keywords
- Indian Ocean islands. Colonialism. Slavery. Language African Languages
- Bookseller catalogs
- African Languages;
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