African Islands - Leading Edges of Empire and Globalization

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

List of contents

Introduction - Toyin Falola and R. Joseph Parrott and Danielle Porter Sanchez
PART 1. ATLANTIC OCEAN ISLANDS
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 16th to the 21st Century - 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
PART 2. INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS
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 Post-Slavery 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
Notes on Contributors

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Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, Danielle Porter Sanchez

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

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• Authors: Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, Danielle Porter Sanchez
• Assisted by: Professor Toyin (Series Editor) Falola (Editor), Toyin Falola (Editor), R. Joseph Parrott (Editor), Danielle Porter Sanchez (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781580469548
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-954-8
• No. of pages: 440
• Dimensions: 236 mm x 159 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 742 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H; Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora; Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Business > International economy