Falola / Parrott / Sanchez African Islands

Leading Edges of Empire and Globalization
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78744-487-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 83, 440 Seiten

Reihe: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Falola, Toyin

Parrott, R. Joseph

Sanchez, Danielle Porter

Weitere Mitwirkende

Jackson, Ashley

Martin, Carla D.

Sanchez, Danielle Porter

Regnier, Denis

Somda, Dominique

Alpers, Edward A.

Okenve, Enrique N.

Seibert, Gerhard

Pérez, Germán Santana

Walker, Iain

Prestholdt, Jeremy

Forrest, Joshua Bernard

Lambek, Michael

Ugarte, Michael

Parrott, R. Joseph

Richard B. Allen, Richard B.

Falola, Toyin

Bissell, William

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Außenhandel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Falola Toyin:
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.Falola Toyin:
TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin.