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2. J. Darwin, The Empire Project: the Rise and Fall of the British World System (Cambridge, 2009).
3. A. Lester, ‘Imperial Circuits and Networks: Geographies of the British Empire’, History Compass 4 (2006), 124–41.
4. C. Hall, Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination, 1830–1867 (London, 2002).
5. National Archives of Mauritius (henceforth NAM) JB140: Court of Appeal, Execution of Rassitatane, Cotte Voude alias Prospere and Latulipe, 15 April 1822. The case is discussed in detail by P. M. Larson, Ocean of Letters: Languages and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora (Cambridge, 2009), pp. 196–219.