04079nam 2200721Ia 450 991079021240332120230126204941.00-674-06287-610.4159/harvard.9780674062870(CKB)2670000000150779(OCoLC)777266069(CaPaEBR)ebrary10533680(SSID)ssj0000611788(PQKBManifestationID)11362713(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611788(PQKBWorkID)10666298(PQKB)10184798(MiAaPQ)EBC3301046(DE-B1597)178284(OCoLC)979575155(DE-B1597)9780674062870(Au-PeEL)EBL3301046(CaPaEBR)ebr10533680(OCoLC)923118498(EXLCZ)99267000000015077920110513d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEmpire and underworld[electronic resource] captivity in French Guiana /Miranda Frances SpielerCambridge, MA Harvard University Press20121 online resource (295 p.) Harvard Historical Studies ;174Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-674-05754-6 Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Leaving the Republic -- Chapter 2. Strange Dominion -- Chapter 3. Free Soil -- Chapter 4. Missing Persons -- Chapter 5. Idea for a Continent -- Chapter 6. Local Arrangements -- Chapter 7. The Enormous Room -- Chapter 8. Metastasis -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- IndexIn 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 groups. Miranda Spieler chronicles the encounter between colonial officials, planters, and others, ranging from deported political enemies to convicts, ex-convicts, vagabonds, freed slaves, non-European immigrants, and Maroons (descendants of fugitive slaves in the forest). She finds that at a time when France was advocating the revolutionary principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, Guiana's exiles were stripped of their legal identities and unmade by law, becoming nonpersons living in limbo.The French Revolution invented the notion of the citizen, but as Spieler shows, it also invented the noncitizen-the person whose rights were nonexistent. Empire and Underworld discovers in Guiana's wilderness a haunting prehistory of current moral dilemmas surrounding detainees of indeterminate legal status. Pairing the history of France with that of its underworld and challenging some of the century's most influential theorists from Hannah Arendt to Michel Foucault, Spieler demonstrates how rights of the modern world can mutate into an apparatus of human deprivation.CaptivityFrench GuianaHistoryPower (Social sciences)French GuianaHistoryPolitical violenceFrench GuianaHistoryMinoritiesFrench GuianaHistoryMarginality, SocialFrench GuianaHistoryFrench GuianaPolitics and governmentTo 1814French GuianaPolitics and government1814-1947French GuianaSocial conditionsFrench GuianaColonial influenceCaptivityHistory.Power (Social sciences)History.Political violenceHistory.MinoritiesHistory.Marginality, SocialHistory.988.2Spieler Miranda Frances1971-1573511MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790212403321Empire and underworld3849257UNINA