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Malagasy at the Mascarenes
(Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2007)
European expansion from the fifteenth century produced much writing on, and
sometimes in, non-European languages that served a broad array of imperial
interests. Most European ventures into what one scholar has termed ...
African Diasporas and the Atlantic
(The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000, edited by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Eric R. Seeman, 129-147. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2007)
As a cursory consultation of any library catalog quickly confirms, the African diaspora
as both concept and field of study is overwhelmingly defined by Atlantic scholarship.
This is paradoxical in two respects. The ...
Colonies Lost: God, Hunger, and Conflict in Anosy (Madagascar) to 1674
(Variorum, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2007)
A fleet of thirteen Portuguese vessels under the command of Pedro Álvares Cabral set
sail from Lisbon for the East Indies just two years after Vasco da Gama fi rst rounded
the Cape of Good Hope. In late May 1500, inclement ...
ENSLAVED MALAGASY AND ‘LE TRAVAIL DE LA PAROLE' IN THE PRE-REVOLUTIONARY MASCARENES
(Journal of African History, 2007)
ABSTRACT: Malagasy speakers probably formed the single largest native speech
community among slaves dispersed into the western Indian Ocean between 1500
and 1900. In the eighteenth-century Mascarenes, Malagasy parlers ...