A History Of Madagascar

Author : Mervyn Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Madagascar
ISBN : IND:30000055651420

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A History of Madagascar by Mervyn Brown Pdf

Madagascar is the fourth largest island in the world. It is a unique blend of Asia and African culture. Although close to the East Coast of Africa, Madagascar came to be inhabited by sea-faring peoples from present day Indonesia. Although so close to the east coast of Africa where traces of human existence go back hundreds of thousands years, Madagascar was uninhabited until about two thousand years ago. How it came to be inhabited by sea-faring peoples from present day Indonesia is just one of the many fascinating aspects of this book. The History of Madagascar examines the origins of Malagasy, the early context with Europeans and the struggle for influence in the nineteenth century between the British and the French. It also covers the Colonial period from 1896 to 1960, the recovery of independence and subsequent history up to the early 1990's. A highly readable, entertaining introduction to the history, politics and people of Madagascar.

Author : Steven M. Goodman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 2296 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780691222622

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The New Natural History of Madagascar by Steven M. Goodman Pdf

A marvelously illustrated reference to the natural wonders of one of the most spectacular places on earth Separated from Africa’s mainland for tens of millions of years, Madagascar has evolved a breathtaking wealth of biodiversity, becoming home to thousands of species found nowhere else on the planet. The New Natural History of Madagascar provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date synthesis available of this island nation’s priceless biological treasures. Now fully revised and expanded, this beautifully illustrated compendium features contributions by more than 600 globally renowned experts who cover the history of scientific exploration in Madagascar, as well as the island’s geology and soils, climate, forest ecology, human ecology, marine and coastal ecosystems, plants, invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. This invaluable two-volume reference also includes detailed discussions of conservation efforts in Madagascar that showcase several successful protected area programs that can serve as models for threatened ecosystems throughout the world. Provides the most comprehensive overview of Madagascar’s rich natural historyCoedited by 18 different specialistsFeatures hundreds of new contributions by world-class expertsIncludes hundreds of new illustrationsCovers a broad array of topics, from geology and climate to animals, plants, and marine lifeSheds light on newly discovered species and draws on the latest scienceAn essential resource for anyone interested in Madagascar or tropical ecosystems in general, from biologists and conservationists to ecotourists and armchair naturalists

Author : Solofo Randrianja,Stephen Ellis
Publisher : C Hurst
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Madagascar
ISBN : 1850658927

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Madagascar by Solofo Randrianja,Stephen Ellis Pdf

The island of Madagascar, off the southeastern coast of Africa, is home to some of the worlds most celebrated plant and animal species, including the baobab and lemur. But few know the history of this environmentally strategic place.

Author : William Ellis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Madagascar
ISBN : BCUL:1092079258

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History of Madagascar by William Ellis Pdf

Author : Gwyn Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521839351

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An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895 by Gwyn Campbell Pdf

The first comprehensive economic history of pre-colonial Madagascar, this study examines the island's role from 1750 to 1895 in the context of a burgeoning international economy and the rise of modern European imperialism. This study reveals that the Merina of the Central Highlands attempted to found an island empire and through the exploitation of its human and natural resources build the economic and military might to challenge British and French pretensions in the region. Ultimately, the Merina failed due to imperial forced labour policies and natural disasters, the nefarious consequences of which (disease; depopulation; ethnic enmity) have in traditional histories been imputed external capitalist and French colonial policies.

Author : Samuel Copland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : NYPL:33433082450820

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A History of the Island of Madagascar by Samuel Copland Pdf

Author : Steven M. Goodman,Jonathan P. Benstead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Natural history
ISBN : 0226303071

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The Natural History of Madagascar by Steven M. Goodman,Jonathan P. Benstead Pdf

Separated from the mainland of Africa for 160 million years, Madagascar has evolved an incredible wealth of biodiversity, with thousands of species that can be found nowhere else on earth. For instance, of its estimated 12,000 plant species, nearly 10,000 are unique to Madagascar. Malagasy animals are just as spectacular, from its almost forty currently recognized species of lemurs—a primate group found only here—to the numerous species of tiny dwarf chameleons. With astounding frequency scientists discover a previously unknown species in Madagascar—and at almost the same rate another natural area of habitat is degraded or destroyed, a combination that recently led conservation organizations to name Madagascar one of the most important and threatened conservation priorities on the planet. The Natural History of Madagascar provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date synthesis available of this island nation's priceless biological treasures. Contributions by nearly three hundred world-renowned experts cover the history of scientific exploration in Madagascar, its geology and soils, climate, forest ecology, human ecology, marine and coastal ecosystems, plants, invertebrates, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. Detailed discussions of conservation efforts in Madagascar highlight several successful park reserve programs that could serve as models for other areas. Beautifully illustrated throughout, the book includes over one hundred color illustrations, with fifty color photos by nature photographer Harald Schütz, as well as more than three hundred black-and-white photographs and line drawings. The Natural History of Madagascar will be the invaluable reference for anyone interested in the Malagasy environment, from biologists and conservationists to policymakers and ecotourists.

Author : Gwyn Campbell
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1203 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004209800

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David Griffiths and the Missionary "History of Madagascar" by Gwyn Campbell Pdf

This book reveals the hitherto hidden history of inter-missionary dispute that split the first LMS mission to Madagascar. Focussing on David Griffiths, whose pivotal role was concealed by the LMS, it suggests that Welsh-English rivalry moulded the mission’s destiny.

Author : Mervyn Brown
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015000027756

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Madagascar Rediscovered by Mervyn Brown Pdf

Author : M. Lambek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349730803

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The Weight of the Past by M. Lambek Pdf

In The Weight of the Past , Michael Lambek explores the complex ways that history shapes, constrains, and enables daily life. Focusing on ritual performances of spirit mediumship in a multifaceted religious landscape, Lambek's analysis reveals the multiple ways that Sakalava 'bear' history. In Mahajanga, Madagascar, to bear history is at once a weighty obligation, a creative re-birthing, a scrupulous cultivation, and an exuberant performance of the past. To bear history is to serve and to suffer it, but also to be informed, enlightened, and sanctified. Royal ancestors emerge in spirit mediums to comment on the present from multiple voices and generate a refracted, ironic historical consciousness. This book describes the division of labour, creative production (poiesis), and ethical practice (phronesis) entailed in imagining, embodying, and serving the past. It is at once a vivid ethnography of Sakalava life and a significant intervention in anthropological debates on culture and history, structure and practice, advocating a theoretical approach informed by Aristotelian categories of understanding. Ethnographically rich and engagingly written, this book will be essential reading for courses in the anthropology of religion, ritual, or historical consciousness.

Author : Samuel Copland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UOM:39015035062937

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A History of the Island of Madagascar by Samuel Copland Pdf

Author : Wendy Wilson-Fall
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821445464

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Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic by Wendy Wilson-Fall Pdf

From the seventeenth century into the nineteenth, thousands of Madagascar’s people were brought to American ports as slaves. In Memories of Madagascar and Slavery in the Black Atlantic, Wendy Wilson-Fall shows that the descendants of these Malagasy slaves in the United States maintained an ethnic identity in ways that those from the areas more commonly feeding the Atlantic slave trade did not. Generations later, hundreds, if not thousands, of African Americans maintain strong identities as Malagasy descendants, yet the histories of Malagasy slaves, sailors, and their descendants have been little explored. Wilson-Fall examines how and why the stories that underlie this identity have been handed down through families—and what this says about broader issues of ethnicity and meaning-making for those whose family origins, if documented at all, have been willfully obscured by history. By analyzing contemporary oral histories as well as historical records and examining the conflicts between the two, Wilson-Fall carefully probes the tensions between the official and the personal, the written and the lived. She suggests that historically, the black community has been a melting pot to which generations of immigrants—enslaved and free—have been socially assigned, often in spite of their wish to retain far more complex identities. Innovative in its methodology and poetic in its articulation, this book bridges history and ethnography to take studies of diaspora, ethnicity, and identity into new territory.

Author : Samuel Copland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:166080224

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A history of the island of Madagascar by Samuel Copland Pdf

Author : Samuel Copland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z198244805

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A History of the Island of Madagascar (etc.) by Samuel Copland Pdf

Author : Solofo Randrianja,Stephen Ellis
Publisher : C Hurst
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1850659478

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Madagascar by Solofo Randrianja,Stephen Ellis Pdf

Two thousand years ago, Madagascar was probably uninhabited. An island twice the size of Great Britain, it was home to unique species of flora and fauna that were undisturbed by humanity until the first navigators landed on its shores. Since then, the changes imposed by humans on the wide range of environments to be found in this mini-continent have formed one of the threads of Madagascar's history. No one knows where the island's first inhabitants came from, but there was a strong connection from the earliest period to the islands of South East Asia - today's Indonesia.Austronesians, Arabs, Portuguese, and Dutch sailors and traders successively dominated the sea-lanes around Madagascar, some of the world's oldest long-distance shipping routes. Over the centuries, Madagascar developed its own distinctive language and cultural systems, absorbing migrants from every shore of the Indian Ocean. In the nineteenth century, Britain and France projected a new type of global power that had a major effect on the island, which became a French colony from 1896 to 1960. Throughout this colourful and often turbulent history, the tension between the formation of a highly original culture and the absorption of immigrants, the development of strong social hierarchies, a long experience of slavery and the slave trade, have all had effects that are still felt today. Now home to 17 million people, Madagascar is one of the world's most fascinating and least-known societies.