The Survival of People and Languages: Schooners, Goats and Cassava in St. Barthélemy, French West Indies

by Julianne Maher

In The Survival of People and Languages: Schooners, Goats and Cassava in St. Barthelemy, French West Indies, Julianne Maher explains a rare linguistic anomaly, how a small homogeneous population of seventeenth century French settlers in the tiny island of St. Barth came to speak four separate languages. With a range of historical documents and eighteenth century eye-witness accounts, Maher reconstructs the island's social ecology that led to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004183264
• ISBN13: 9789004183261
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.4"