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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... Protestant church bred nationalist leaders who used their pulpits to claim recovery of the independence enjoyed under the Merina queens - Protestant themselves since 1869.25 Because France would not accommodate the early nationalist ...
... Protestant church bred nationalist leaders who used their pulpits to claim recovery of the independence enjoyed under the Merina queens - Protestant themselves since 1869.25 Because France would not accommodate the early nationalist ...
Page 152
... Protestant movement shares this vulnerability to overt political sus- picion and occasionally imputed clandestinity . The Protestant clergy of the capital has vigorously denounced all governments for nearly a century . American Lutheran ...
... Protestant movement shares this vulnerability to overt political sus- picion and occasionally imputed clandestinity . The Protestant clergy of the capital has vigorously denounced all governments for nearly a century . American Lutheran ...
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... Protestant and Catholic clergy communicated through relatively lively or- gans of news and commentary . The Catholic diocesan press in particular al- ways enjoyed a limited license to blame the regime directly for current trou- bles ...
... Protestant and Catholic clergy communicated through relatively lively or- gans of news and commentary . The Catholic diocesan press in particular al- ways enjoyed a limited license to blame the regime directly for current trou- bles ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
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