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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... socialist identity . The second republic's ideological and institutional structure was declared in the Charter of the Socialist Revolution , promulgated on August 26 , 1975 , to legitimize everything else . Like all other major texts ...
... socialist identity . The second republic's ideological and institutional structure was declared in the Charter of the Socialist Revolution , promulgated on August 26 , 1975 , to legitimize everything else . Like all other major texts ...
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... socialist network . Socialist information programs , cultural activity , ex- change of students , and official delegations once far outweighed what the West contributed in propaganda and public relations on the great island . Sev- eral ...
... socialist network . Socialist information programs , cultural activity , ex- change of students , and official delegations once far outweighed what the West contributed in propaganda and public relations on the great island . Sev- eral ...
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... socialist system . The regime of 1975 tried central planning , national operation of industry , and an ideologi- cally unified state , but it succeeded only in imposing the rhetoric , not the real- ity , of a socialist society . The ...
... socialist system . The regime of 1975 tried central planning , national operation of industry , and an ideologi- cally unified state , but it succeeded only in imposing the rhetoric , not the real- ity , of a socialist society . The ...
Contents
From Paternalism to Revolution | 31 |
Revolution as Myth | 79 |
Society in Modern Madagascar | 121 |
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