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The Resource African islands : leading edges of empire and globalization, edited by Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, Danielle Porter Sanchez, (electronic resource)

African islands : leading edges of empire and globalization, edited by Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, Danielle Porter Sanchez, (electronic resource)

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Contributor
Summary
Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories and of islands off the African coast--
Language
eng
Work
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Extent
1 online resource (viii, 432 pages)
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
Isbn
9781787444874
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https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787444874/type/BOOK
Instance
Label
African islands : leading edges of empire and globalization
Title
African islands
Title remainder
leading edges of empire and globalization
Statement of responsibility
edited by Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, Danielle Porter Sanchez
Contributor
Editor
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories and of islands off the African coast--
Member of
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Provided by publisher
Cataloging source
UkCbUP
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
dictionaries
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1985-
  • 1986-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Falola, Toyin
  • Parrott, R. Joseph
  • Sanchez, Danielle Porter
Series statement
  • Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora
  • Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Islands
  • States, Small
  • Africa
  • Africa
  • Africa
  • Islands of the Atlantic
  • Islands of the Indian Ocean
Label
African islands : leading edges of empire and globalization, edited by Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, Danielle Porter Sanchez, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787444874/type/BOOK
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Publication
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online resource
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  • cr
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
CR9781787444874
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (viii, 432 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
Isbn
9781787444874
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computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1104139340
Label
African islands : leading edges of empire and globalization, edited by Toyin Falola, R. Joseph Parrott, Danielle Porter Sanchez, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781787444874/type/BOOK
Publication
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
CR9781787444874
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (viii, 432 pages)
Form of item
online
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
Isbn
9781787444874
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
digital, PDF file(s).
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1104139340

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