African Islands
Subtitle: Leading Edges of Empire and Globalization
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9781787444874
Table of contents: title: Introduction - Toyin Falola and R. Joseph Parrott and Danielle Porter Sanchez; label: PART 1
title: ATLANTIC OCEAN ISLANDS; title: The Canaries to Africa: The Atlantic Strategy of "To Be or Not To Be" - Germán Santana Pérez; title: Sugar, Cocoa, and Oil: Economic Success and Failure in São Tomé and Príncipe from the 16th to the 21st Century - Gerhard Seibert; title: The Bijagos of Canhabac Island (Guinea-Bissau) - Joshua Bernard Forrest; title: An Island in the Middle of Everywhere: Bioko under Colonial Domination - Enrique N. Okenve; title: Cursing in Bioko and Annobón: Repeating Islands that Don't Repeat - Michael Ugarte; title: African Ports and Islands during the Second World War - Ashley Jackson; title: "Nos lingua, nos kultura, nos identidadi": Postcolonial Language Planning and Promotion in Cabo Verde and the Cape Verdean Diaspora - Carla D. Martin; label: PART 2
title: INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; title: Africa's Indian Ocean Islands, Near and Distant - Edward A. Alpers; title: Monsoon Metropolis: Migration, Mobility, and Mediation in the Western Indian Ocean - William Bissell; title: The Mascarenes, Indian Ocean Africa, and Global Labor Migration during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries - Richard B. Allen; title: The Island as Nexus: Zanzibar in the Nineteenth Century - Jeremy Prestholdt; title: Slavery and Post-Slavery in Madagascar: An Overview - Denis Regnier and Dominique Somda; title: The Comoros: Strategies of Islandness in the Indian Ocean - Iain Walker; title: Gendered Pioneers from Mayotte: An Ethnographic Perspective on Travel and Transformation in the Western Indian Ocean - Michael Lambek; title: Notes on Contributors