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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... present down a different channel . " 3 During the Upper Cretaceous period , some 50 to 80 million years after the disruption of the ancient unified landmass of Gondwanaland , Madagas- car actually broke free from the present area of ...
... present down a different channel . " 3 During the Upper Cretaceous period , some 50 to 80 million years after the disruption of the ancient unified landmass of Gondwanaland , Madagas- car actually broke free from the present area of ...
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... present that would prove impossible for either of them to ignore . As it entered its new decade , the Malagasy republic had clearly ex- hausted the credit inherited at independence time . By late 1971 , Antananarivo had again become a ...
... present that would prove impossible for either of them to ignore . As it entered its new decade , the Malagasy republic had clearly ex- hausted the credit inherited at independence time . By late 1971 , Antananarivo had again become a ...
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... present in positive terms the efforts to construct an original form of socialism , impossibility for the regime's oppo- nents to maintain their own organs , and above all , the vigilance of strict cen- sorship . " 100 The result was a ...
... present in positive terms the efforts to construct an original form of socialism , impossibility for the regime's oppo- nents to maintain their own organs , and above all , the vigilance of strict cen- sorship . " 100 The result was a ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
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