African islands : leading edges of empire and globalization /: leading edges of empire and globalization. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, and Danielle Porter Sanchez.
• Editors: Falola, Toyin; Parrott, R. Joseph, 1985-; Sanchez, Danielle Porter, 1986-
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 960.32; Islands -- Africa; States, Small; HISTORY / Africa / General; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Exports & Imports; Colonial influence; Economic history; Islands; Politics and government; States, Small; Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960-; Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960-; Africa -- Colonial influence; Islands of the Atlantic; Islands of the Indian Ocean; Africa; Atlantic Ocean -- Islands of the Atlantic; Indian Ocean -- Islands of the Indian Ocean; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787444874; 1787444872
• Related ISBNs: 9781580469548; 158046954X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 10, 2019).
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