Title African islands : leading edges of empire and globalization / edited by Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, and Danielle Porter Sanchez

Published Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource Series Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora. 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 Summary Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories and of islands off the African coast Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 10, 2019) Subject Islands -- Africa States, Small. HISTORY -- Africa -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports. Colonial influence Economic history Islands Politics and government States, Small SUBJECT Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001573 Africa -- Economic conditions -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001552 Africa -- Colonial influence Islands of the Atlantic. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068609 Islands of the Indian Ocean. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068611 Subject Africa Atlantic Ocean -- Islands of the Atlantic Indian Ocean -- Islands of the Indian Ocean Form Electronic book Author Falola, Toyin, editor. Parrott, R. Joseph, 1985- editor. Sanchez, Danielle Porter, 1986- editor. ISBN 9781787444874 1787444872

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