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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... followed ineffectual wave into these territo- ries during more than a half - century of rule from Antananarivo . Administra- tors collected taxes and imposed labor quotas , but they could never mobilize the productive or affective ...
... followed ineffectual wave into these territo- ries during more than a half - century of rule from Antananarivo . Administra- tors collected taxes and imposed labor quotas , but they could never mobilize the productive or affective ...
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... followed unacceptable presidential options more slavishly.57 Here was a new effort to separate the PSD from the state . Nationalists within the AKFM as well as Resampists in the PSD objected to the president's viscerally anticommunist ...
... followed unacceptable presidential options more slavishly.57 Here was a new effort to separate the PSD from the state . Nationalists within the AKFM as well as Resampists in the PSD objected to the president's viscerally anticommunist ...
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... followed the French lead . Through the Cold War era , Madagascar's case for benevolent attention was bolstered by its putative geopolitical leverage on Soviet ambitions in southern Africa and the Indian Ocean . After a diplomatic hiatus ...
... followed the French lead . Through the Cold War era , Madagascar's case for benevolent attention was bolstered by its putative geopolitical leverage on Soviet ambitions in southern Africa and the Indian Ocean . After a diplomatic hiatus ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
Copyright | |
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