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Book Early kingdoms in Madagascar  150 1700

Download or read book Early kingdoms in Madagascar 150 1700 written by Raymond K. Kent and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early Kingdoms in Madagascar  1500 1700

Download or read book Early Kingdoms in Madagascar 1500 1700 written by Raymond K. Kent and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early Kingdoms in Madagascar and the Birth of the Sakalava Empire  1500 1700

Download or read book Early Kingdoms in Madagascar and the Birth of the Sakalava Empire 1500 1700 written by Raymond K. Kent and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early Kingdoms in Madagascar and the Birth of the Sakalava Empire

Download or read book Early Kingdoms in Madagascar and the Birth of the Sakalava Empire written by Raymond Knezevich Kent and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Slavers

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  • Author : Sean M. Kelley
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2023-05-30
  • ISBN : 0300271557
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book American Slavers written by Sean M. Kelley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first telling of the unknown story of America’s two-hundred-year history as a slave-trading nation A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred years as American merchants and mariners sailed to Africa and to the Caribbean to acquire and sell captives. Using exhaustive archival research, including many collections that have never been used before, historian Sean M. Kelley argues that slave trading needs to be seen as integral to the larger story of American slavery. Engaging with both African and American history and addressing the trade over time, Kelley examines the experience of captivity, drawing on more than a hundred African narratives to offer a portrait of enslavement in the regions of Africa frequented by American ships. Kelley also provides a social history of the two American ports where slave trading was most intensive, Newport and Bristol, Rhode Island. In telling this tragic, brutal, and largely unknown story, Kelley corrects many misconceptions while leaving no doubt that Americans were a nation of slave traders.

Book The Web of Empire

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  • Author : Alison Games
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2008-07-15
  • ISBN : 0199887349
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book The Web of Empire written by Alison Games and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did England go from a position of inferiority to the powerful Spanish empire to achieve global pre-eminence? In this important second book, Alison Games, a colonial American historian, explores the period from 1560 to 1660, when England challenged dominion over the American continents, established new long-distance trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean and the East Indies, and emerged in the 17th century as an empire to reckon with. Games discusses such topics as the men and women who built the colonial enterprise, the political and fiscal factors that made such growth possible, and domestic politics that fueled commercial expansion. Her cast of characters includes soldiers and diplomats, merchants and mariners, ministers and colonists, governors and tourists, revealing the surprising breath of foreign experiences ordinary English people had in this period. This book is also unusual in stretching outside Europe to include Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. A comparative imperial study and expansive world history, this book makes a lasting argument about the formative years of the English empire.

Book The New Natural History of Madagascar

Download or read book The New Natural History of Madagascar written by Steven M. Goodman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 2297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 history Coedited by 18 different specialists Features hundreds of new contributions by world-class experts Includes hundreds of new illustrations Covers a broad array of topics, from geology and climate to animals, plants, and marine life Sheds light on newly discovered species and draws on the latest science An essential resource for anyone interested in Madagascar or tropical ecosystems in general, from biologists and conservationists to ecotourists and armchair naturalists

Book Historical Dictionary of Madagascar

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Madagascar written by Maureen Covell and published by African Historical Dictionarie. This book was released on 1995 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the topics necessary to understand past and present Malagasy society and politics.

Book General History of Africa

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  • Author : International Scientific Committee for the drafting of a General History of Africa
  • Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
  • Release : 1992-12-31
  • ISBN : 923101711X
  • Pages : 1071 pages

Download or read book General History of Africa written by International Scientific Committee for the drafting of a General History of Africa and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 1992-12-31 with total page 1071 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of UNESCO's most important publishing projects in the last thirty years, the General History of Africa marks a major breakthrough in the recognition of Africa's cultural heritage. Offering an internal perspective of Africa, the eight-volume work provides a comprehensive approach to the history of ideas, civilizations, societies and institutions of African history. The volumes also discuss historical relationships among Africans as well as multilateral interactions with other cultures and continents.

Book Madagascar in History

Download or read book Madagascar in History written by Raymond K. Kent and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Madagascar Rediscovered

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  • Author : Mervyn Brown
  • Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Madagascar Rediscovered written by Mervyn Brown and published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Early Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope  1652 1717

Download or read book Early Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope 1652 1717 written by Karel Schoeman and published by Protea Book House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first slave reached the Cape in 1653, a year after the first white settler party under Jan van Riebeeck. Thousands more would follow. Slavery was to remain an institution here until the end of the Dutch period in 1795, and well beyond, for it was not until 1834, under British administration, that Cape slaves were finally emancipated. In Early Slavery at the Cape of Good Hope, Karel Schoeman describes the transplanting of slavery from the Dutch colonies in the East and the first sixty years of its development under local conditions, basing his account mainly on contemporary sources and providing as much information on individual slaves and their lives as these allow. Attention is likewise given to the gradual manumission of slaves and the slow development of a 'free black' community at the Cape towards the close of the seventeenth century.

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1973 with total page 1938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Root   Branch

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  • Author : Graham Russell Hodges
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 444 pages

Download or read book Root Branch written by Graham Russell Hodges and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863

Book Catalog of the Robert Goldwater Library  the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Download or read book Catalog of the Robert Goldwater Library the Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Robert Goldwater Library and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Evolution of Social Systems

Download or read book The Evolution of Social Systems written by J. Friedman and published by Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How to Read a Folktale

Download or read book How to Read a Folktale written by Lee Haring and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to Read a Folktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Ibonia is a folktale on epic scale. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a series of tests and duels, he and his lover are joyfully united with a marriage that affirms the royal lineage. These fairytale elements link Ibonia with European folktales, but the tale is still very much a product of Madagascar. It contains African-style praise poetry for the hero; it presents Indonesian-style riddles and poems; and it inflates the form of folktale into epic proportions. Recorded when the Malagasy people were experiencing European contact for the first time, Ibonia proclaims the power of the ancestors against the foreigner. Through Ibonia, Lee Haring expertly helps readers to understand the very nature of folktales. His definitive translation, originally published in 1994, has now been fully revised to emphasize its poetic qualities, while his new introduction and detailed notes give insight into the fascinating imagination and symbols of the Malagasy. Haring’s research connects this exotic narrative with fundamental questions not only of anthropology but also of literary criticism.