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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Page 181
... exports of coffee and other crops at high world market prices . Cata- strophically for Madagascar , those export prices did not hold into the 1980s , world interest rates rose precipitously , and creditors sought to call in their loans ...
... exports of coffee and other crops at high world market prices . Cata- strophically for Madagascar , those export prices did not hold into the 1980s , world interest rates rose precipitously , and creditors sought to call in their loans ...
Page 200
... export - price insurance program under the Lomé re- gimes has been unable to adjust to massive collapse in the coffee market for many of its members . Lower export earnings obliged serious perennial cuts in the Malagasy budget ...
... export - price insurance program under the Lomé re- gimes has been unable to adjust to massive collapse in the coffee market for many of its members . Lower export earnings obliged serious perennial cuts in the Malagasy budget ...
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... export markets , and tourists , hitherto diverted away from a defiant great island . Seychelles and Comoros could also participate with Madagascar in an evolving system of transportation and tourism . Benefiting substantially through ...
... export markets , and tourists , hitherto diverted away from a defiant great island . Seychelles and Comoros could also participate with Madagascar in an evolving system of transportation and tourism . Benefiting substantially through ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
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