African Islands : Leading Edges of Empire and Globalization /

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Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories and of islands off the African coast.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sanchez, Danielle Porter, 1986- (Editor), Parrott, R. Joseph, 1985- (Editor), Falola, Toyin (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
States, Small.
Politics and government.
Islands.
Economic history.
Colonial influence.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
Petits États.
Îles > Afrique.
Islands > Africa.
Indian Ocean > Islands of the Indian Ocean.
Atlantic Ocean > Islands of the Atlantic.
Africa.
Indien, Îles de l'ocean.
Atlantique, Îles de l'.
Afrique > Influence coloniale.
Afrique > Conditions economiques > 1960-
Afrique > Politique et gouvernement > 1960-
Islands of the Indian Ocean.
Islands of the Atlantic.
Africa > Colonial influence.
Africa > Economic conditions > 1960-
Africa > Politics and government > 1960-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Arbiters and witnesses of change
  • contextualizing conversations on African islands / Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, and Danielle Porter Sanchez
  • The Canaries to Africa: the Atlantic strategy of "to be or not to be" / Germán Santana Perez
  • Sugar, cocoa, and oil: economic success and failure in São Tome and Príncipe from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries / Gerhard Seibert
  • The Bijagos of Canhabac Island (Guinea-Bissau) / Joshua Bernard Forrest
  • An island in the middle of everywhere: Bioko under colonial domination / Enrique N. Okenve
  • Cursing in Bioko and Annobón: repeating islands that don't repeat / Michael Ugarte
  • African ports and islands during the Second World War / Ashley Jackson
  • "Nos lingua, nos kultura, nos identidadi": postcolonial language planning and promotion in Cabo Verde and the Cape Verdean diaspora / Carla D. Martin
  • Africa's Indian Ocean islands, near and distant / Edward A. Alpers
  • Monsoon metropolis: migration, mobility, and mediation in the western Indian Ocean / William Bissell
  • The Mascarenes, Indian Ocean Africa, and global labor migration during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Richard B. Allen
  • The island as nexus: Zanzibar in the nineteenth century / Jeremy Prestholdt
  • Slavery and postslavery in Madagascar: an overview / Denis Regnier and Dominique Somda
  • The Comoros: strategies of islandness in the Indian Ocean / Iain Walker
  • Gendered pioneers from Mayotte: an ethnographic perspective on travel and transformation in the western Indian Ocean / Michael Lambek.

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