Madagascar: Conflicts Of Authority In The Great IslandThe world's fourth largest island, with a unique biological and physical endowment, Madagascar is home to an extraordinary insular civilization that has struggled for more than a century against external domination. In this sensitive introduction to the Indian Ocean's "great island," Philip Allen shows how family affinities and community loyalties at the foundation of Madagascar's culture have influenced Malagasy nationalism and forged island-wide traditions. |
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... Francisque Ravony as prime minister to organize the first government of the third repub- lic . A fifty - two - year - old lawyer from Vohipeno who left Manandafy's MFM in January 1993 to found a committee of support for Albert Zafy , 56 ...
... Francisque Ravony as prime minister to organize the first government of the third repub- lic . A fifty - two - year - old lawyer from Vohipeno who left Manandafy's MFM in January 1993 to found a committee of support for Albert Zafy , 56 ...
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... Francisque Ravony's August 1993 cabinet , seems dangerously frag- ile as it begins its initial mandate without the leadership that perhaps only a president can provide . It may be this prospect of parliamentary weakness that prompted Dr ...
... Francisque Ravony's August 1993 cabinet , seems dangerously frag- ile as it begins its initial mandate without the leadership that perhaps only a president can provide . It may be this prospect of parliamentary weakness that prompted Dr ...
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... Francisque Ravony and Jacques Sylla are in power , not " Governor " Monja Jaona , Colonel Bréchard , or their counterparts in Mahajanga and Antsiranana . This prefer- ence for the centralized European nation - state appears to preclude ...
... Francisque Ravony and Jacques Sylla are in power , not " Governor " Monja Jaona , Colonel Bréchard , or their counterparts in Mahajanga and Antsiranana . This prefer- ence for the centralized European nation - state appears to preclude ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
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