Madagascar: Conflicts Of Authority In The Great Island

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Avalon Publishing, 1995 - History - 254 pages
The 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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From Paternalism to Revolution
31
Revolution as Myth
79
Society in Modern Madagascar
121
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