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Hardcover An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire Book

ISBN: 0521839351

ISBN13: 9780521839358

An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire

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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. Challenging conventional portrayals of nineteenth-century Madagascar as a unified and progressive kingdom, this study reveals that the Merina of the central highlands attempted to found an island empire and through the exploitation...

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