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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... king's commercial rivals away from the slave - hungry French along the east coast . Thanks to Farquhar , Radama had a Mauritian named Robin as his secretary and British sergeant James Hastie to drill his squadrons . Acting like a ...
... king's commercial rivals away from the slave - hungry French along the east coast . Thanks to Farquhar , Radama had a Mauritian named Robin as his secretary and British sergeant James Hastie to drill his squadrons . Acting like a ...
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... king seemed to consider himself a European , and a relatively advanced once at that . But he was also entirely under ... king's favorites . It was then that the spirit of Radama's dead mother began haunting the imaginations of Imerina ...
... king seemed to consider himself a European , and a relatively advanced once at that . But he was also entirely under ... king's favorites . It was then that the spirit of Radama's dead mother began haunting the imaginations of Imerina ...
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... king Andrianampoinimerina . This monarch's success was owed in part to an increasing population's de- mand for goods and in part to the need for protection , which the king's forces supplied . Nampoina's successors - subsequent monarchs ...
... king Andrianampoinimerina . This monarch's success was owed in part to an increasing population's de- mand for goods and in part to the need for protection , which the king's forces supplied . Nampoina's successors - subsequent monarchs ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
Copyright | |
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