“a veritable babylon” Enlightenment and Disorder “Les petits” are led along by the example of “les grands” and “les grands” have no power to repress the unruliness of “les petits” since they take part in the same disorders. This entire colony is a veritable Babylon. B Father Le Maire on Louisiana, (Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. Fr. , fol. ) One of Louisiana’s earliest intellectuals was also one of its most interesting characters: Father Le Maire, who spent fourteen years in Louisiana (– ). He had taken thismissionary work out of a curiosity
Contents List of Illustrations and Tables xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xix Introduction “a veritable babylon” Enlightenment and Disorder la ville sauvage Nature and Urban Planning a backwater entrepôt la renommée From Colonial Experiment to Creole Society tensions of power Law, Discipline, and Violence conclusion Revolt and Rogue Colonialism Chronology Glossary List of Abbreviations Notes Index
CONTENTS List of Maps ix Preface xi Introduction 1 PART I CONSTRUCTING VISIONS OF THE HISTORICAL PAST: THE POLITICS OF READING, WRITING, AND TELLING OF HISTORY I BETWEEN ORAL MEMORY AND WRITTEN HISTORY: Re-Membering the Past 31 2 EXCHANGING IDENTITIES: The Makings of the Guvezna Market Community 54 3 CONVERGING FRONTIERS OF GREEK AND BULGARIAN NATIONALISM: Religious Propaganda, Educational Competition, and National Enlightenment in Macedonia, 1870-1903 77 4 THE MACEDONIAN STRUGGLE IN GUVEZNA: Violence, Terror, and the Scepter of National Liberation, 19°3-19°8 108
Foreword / Chris Hann / vii / Fredrik Barth 1. The Rise of Anthropology in Britain, 1830–1898 / 3 2. From the Torres Straits to the Argonauts, 1898–1922 / 11 3. Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown, 1920–1945 / 22 4. The Golden Age, 1945–1970 / 32 5. Enduring Legacies of the British Tradition, 1970–2000 / 44 - / Andre Gingrich 1. Prelude and Overture: From Early Travelogues to German Enlightenment / 61 2. From the Nationalist Birth of Volkskunde to the Establishment of Academic
