Indian Ocean island east of Madagascar, a British sugar colony from 1810 that became independent in 1968 and a republic in 1992.
Survives as a stable multiparty democracy, consistently ranked the most peaceful and one of the most developed economies in Africa; won a 2025 bilateral agreement with the United Kingdom recognizing its sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago.
A standard narrative history of Mauritius from Dutch and French settlement through British rule.
Broad continental history (published as 'Africa: A Biography of the Continent'); places Mauritius's plantation economy in the wider African/Indian Ocean context.