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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... rice , yam , taro , and arrowroot , planted in re- cently burnt fields ( the practice of tavy ) . Paddy rice and banana cultivation came later , as did American roots such as cassava . The seventeenth - century plateau seems to have ...
... rice , yam , taro , and arrowroot , planted in re- cently burnt fields ( the practice of tavy ) . Paddy rice and banana cultivation came later , as did American roots such as cassava . The seventeenth - century plateau seems to have ...
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... Rice prices rose by 87 percent , flour by 100 per- cent , and bread by 76.8 percent in the first half of the decade . Rice became 15 percent more expensive in 1984 alone as the overall index climbed nearly eighty points in one year ...
... Rice prices rose by 87 percent , flour by 100 per- cent , and bread by 76.8 percent in the first half of the decade . Rice became 15 percent more expensive in 1984 alone as the overall index climbed nearly eighty points in one year ...
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... rice by a further 10 per- cent , exhausting the state's buffer stocks . For 1991–1992 , the Food and Agri- cultural Organization registered a lamentable need for continuing imports of some 100,000 tons of rice and similar quantities of ...
... rice by a further 10 per- cent , exhausting the state's buffer stocks . For 1991–1992 , the Food and Agri- cultural Organization registered a lamentable need for continuing imports of some 100,000 tons of rice and similar quantities of ...
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