عنوان

African islands :

1787444872

9781787444874

158046954X

9781580469548

African islands :

[Book]

leading edges of empire and globalization /

edited by Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, and Danielle Porter Sanchez.

Rochester, NY :

University of Rochester Press,

2019.

1 online resource

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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

JSTOR

22573/ctvb6t9v0

Islands-- Africa.

States, Small.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Exports & Imports.

Colonial influence.

Economic history.

HISTORY-- Africa-- General.

Islands.

Politics and government.

States, Small.

Africa, Colonial influence.

Africa, Economic conditions, 1960-

Africa, Politics and government, 1960-

Islands of the Atlantic.

Islands of the Indian Ocean.

Africa.

Atlantic Ocean, Islands of the Atlantic.

Indian Ocean, Islands of the Indian Ocean.

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Falola, Toyin

Parrott, R. Joseph,1985-

Sanchez, Danielle Porter,1986-

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