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" African islands : "
edited by Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, and Danielle Porter Sanchez.
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BL
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856402
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African islands : : leading edges of empire and globalization /\ edited by Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, and Danielle Porter Sanchez.
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Rochester, NY :: University of Rochester Press,, 2019.
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Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora
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1 online resource
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1787444872
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158046954X
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9781580469548
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories and of islands off the African coast.
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Islands-- Africa.
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States, Small.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Exports Imports.
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Colonial influence.
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Economic history.
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HISTORY-- Africa-- General.
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Islands.
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Politics and government.
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States, Small.
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Africa, Colonial influence.
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Africa, Economic conditions, 1960-
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Africa, Politics and government, 1960-
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Islands of the Atlantic.
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Islands of the Indian Ocean.
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Africa.
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Atlantic Ocean, Islands of the Atlantic.
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Indian Ocean, Islands of the Indian Ocean.
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| Dewey Classification
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960.32
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DT30.5.A3645 2019eb
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Falola, Toyin
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Parrott, R. Joseph,1985-
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Sanchez, Danielle Porter,1986-
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