LEADER 04113nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910461483503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-06287-6 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674062870 035 $a(CKB)2670000000150779 035 $a(OCoLC)777266069 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10533680 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000611788 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11362713 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000611788 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10666298 035 $a(PQKB)10184798 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301046 035 $a(DE-B1597)178284 035 $a(OCoLC)979575155 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674062870 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301046 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10533680 035 $a(OCoLC)923118498 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000150779 100 $a20110513d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEmpire and underworld$b[electronic resource] $ecaptivity in French Guiana /$fMiranda Frances Spieler 210 $aCambridge, MA $cHarvard University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (295 p.) 225 0 $aHarvard Historical Studies ;$v174 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-674-05754-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1. Leaving the Republic -- $tChapter 2. Strange Dominion -- $tChapter 3. Free Soil -- $tChapter 4. Missing Persons -- $tChapter 5. Idea for a Continent -- $tChapter 6. Local Arrangements -- $tChapter 7. The Enormous Room -- $tChapter 8. Metastasis -- $tConclusion -- $tAppendix -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aCaptivity$zFrench Guiana$xHistory 606 $aPower (Social sciences)$zFrench Guiana$xHistory 606 $aPolitical violence$zFrench Guiana$xHistory 606 $aMinorities$zFrench Guiana$xHistory 606 $aMarginality, Social$zFrench Guiana$xHistory 607 $aFrench Guiana$xPolitics and government$yTo 1814 607 $aFrench Guiana$xPolitics and government$y1814-1947 607 $aFrench Guiana$xSocial conditions 607 $aFrench Guiana$xColonial influence 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCaptivity$xHistory. 615 0$aPower (Social sciences)$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitical violence$xHistory. 615 0$aMinorities$xHistory. 615 0$aMarginality, Social$xHistory. 676 $a988.2 700 $aSpieler$b Miranda Frances$f1971-$01027371 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461483503321 996 $aEmpire and underworld$92442759 997 $aUNINA