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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... became peasants un- willing to do so . Postharvest brushfires sent their signal of folk alienation into the empyrean for all to read ; they became unusually severe after the elections of September 6 , 1970 , which had merely reinforced ...
... became peasants un- willing to do so . Postharvest brushfires sent their signal of folk alienation into the empyrean for all to read ; they became unusually severe after the elections of September 6 , 1970 , which had merely reinforced ...
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... became a cause célèbre in the capital , where he returned in 1993 in time to be elected to the third republic's parliament on a pro - Zafy ticket . Three mysterious aircraft crashes in the 1980s also decimated the ranks of the old ...
... became a cause célèbre in the capital , where he returned in 1993 in time to be elected to the third republic's parliament on a pro - Zafy ticket . Three mysterious aircraft crashes in the 1980s also decimated the ranks of the old ...
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... became far tighter , how- ever , as socialist academics found their way into the state apparatus . Guaranteeing all Malagasy a basic education , the Ratsiraka regime pro- vided for a five - year elementary cycle within the village ...
... became far tighter , how- ever , as socialist academics found their way into the state apparatus . Guaranteeing all Malagasy a basic education , the Ratsiraka regime pro- vided for a five - year elementary cycle within the village ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
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administration Africa agricultural AKFM Albert Zafy Althabe ancestral Andriamanjato Antananarivo Antanosy Antsiranana AREMA Betsimisaraka Bloch capital central century Césaire Rabenoro Chaigneau Christian colonial Comoros côtier Country Report cultural debt democratic Didier Ratsiraka domestic domination economic elections elites European export external fanjakana FNDR fokon'olona forces foreign France Francisque Ravony French gasy ideological Indian Ocean institutions investment island Jacques Rabemananjara Jeune Afrique l'océan indien labor leaders Madagas Madagascar Madagascar Paris Madagascar Tribune Mahajanga Mala Malagasy malgache Manandafy Marxist Mauritius MDRM ment Merina military million MONIMA Monja Jaona nationalist party Pavageau peasant percent plateaus political politique population Première république president prime minister production Rabemananjara Ramanantsoa Ranavalona Ratsimandrava Ratsiraka Ravony Razanamasy regime remained Resampa Réunion revolution revolutionary rice rural Sakalava slaves social socialist society structure Third World tion Toamasina trade traditional Tsiranana urban vazaha virtually World Bank Zafy