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Seventh grade at Archibald Hunter Elementary School was nothing like Kati imagined it would be. She had always thought living in Tiny was boring. Life would never be boring again. Since school started her world had been turned upside down with ghosts, legends, first crushes, new best friends and great old friends. It all started with her new look and the almost silent click of a cell phone camera and now things would never be the same again.

This social and economic history of the island of Mauritius, from French colonization in 1721 to the beginnings of modern political life in the mid-1930s, emphasizes the importance of domestic capital formation, particularly in the sugar industry. Describing changing relationships among different elements in the society, slave, free and maroon, and East Indian indentured populations, it shows how these were conditioned by demographic changes, world markets, and local institutions. It brings the Mauritian case to the attention of scholars engaged in the comparative study of slavery and...