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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... remained until the end of the monarchy . French sources estimate the number of slaves in the country as between a half - million and one million in 1896. France thus had a " civilizing " pretext for conquest . 73 Moreover , forced labor ...
... remained until the end of the monarchy . French sources estimate the number of slaves in the country as between a half - million and one million in 1896. France thus had a " civilizing " pretext for conquest . 73 Moreover , forced labor ...
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... remained to enter vil- ! lage trade.61 While the other new minorities fanned out into towns and villages throughout the great island , Comoreans moved into the major cities of the north , becoming tradespeople , manual laborers ...
... remained to enter vil- ! lage trade.61 While the other new minorities fanned out into towns and villages throughout the great island , Comoreans moved into the major cities of the north , becoming tradespeople , manual laborers ...
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... remained low . Moreover , the attrition rate was severe ; only 35 to 40 percent of baccalaureate - holders actu- ally graduated with university degrees . Women represented only slightly more than one - fourth of the student population ...
... remained low . Moreover , the attrition rate was severe ; only 35 to 40 percent of baccalaureate - holders actu- ally graduated with university degrees . Women represented only slightly more than one - fourth of the student population ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
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administration Africa agricultural AKFM Albert Zafy Althabe ancestral Andriamanjato Antananarivo Antanosy Antsiranana AREMA Betsimisaraka Bloch capital central century Césaire Rabenoro Chaigneau Christian colonial Comoros côtier Country Report cultural debt democratic Didier Ratsiraka domestic domination economic elections elites European export external fanjakana FNDR fokon'olona forces foreign France Francisque Ravony French gasy ideological Indian Ocean institutions investment island Jacques Rabemananjara Jeune Afrique l'océan indien labor leaders Madagas Madagascar Madagascar Paris Madagascar Tribune Mahajanga Mala Malagasy malgache Manandafy Marxist Mauritius MDRM ment Merina military million MONIMA Monja Jaona nationalist party Pavageau peasant percent plateaus political politique population Première république president prime minister production Rabemananjara Ramanantsoa Ranavalona Ratsimandrava Ratsiraka Ravony Razanamasy regime remained Resampa Réunion revolution revolutionary rice rural Sakalava slaves social socialist society structure Third World tion Toamasina trade traditional Tsiranana urban vazaha virtually World Bank Zafy