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African islands : leading edges of empire and globalization
- Title
- African islands : leading edges of empire and globalization / edited by Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, and Danielle Porter Sanchez.
- Publication
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- viii, 432 pages : maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora
- Uniform Title
- Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora.
- Subjects
- Africa
- Islands
- Africa > Politics and government > 1960-
- Colonial influence
- Islands of the Indian Ocean
- Africa > Colonial influence
- Since 1960
- Islands > Africa
- States, Small
- Atlantic Ocean > Islands of the Atlantic
- Africa > Economic conditions > 1960-
- Islands of the Atlantic
- Indian Ocean > Islands of the Indian Ocean
- Politics and government
- Economic history
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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 Pérez -- Sugar, cocoa, and oil: economic success and failure in São Tomé 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1357
- ISBN
- 9781580469548
- 158046954X
- LCCN
- 2019013735
- OCLC
- 1065719352
- Title
- African islands : leading edges of empire and globalization / edited by Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, and Danielle Porter Sanchez.
- Publisher
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Rochester studies in African history and the diasporaRochester studies in African history and the diaspora.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1960
- Added Author
- Falola, Toyin, editor.Parrott, R. Joseph, 1985- editor.Sanchez, Danielle Porter, 1986- editor.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1357