African islands : leading edges of empire and globalization /: leading edges of empire and globalization. (2019)
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- Book
- Title:
- African islands : leading edges of empire and globalization /: leading edges of empire and globalization. (2019)
- Main Title:
- African islands : leading edges of empire and globalization
- 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 ethnographicIntroduction: 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. … (more)
- 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.
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