This comprehensive economic history of pre-colonial Madagascar examines the island's role in the burgeoning international economy and the rise of modern European imperialism. It reveals that the Merina of the Central Highlands attempted to found an island empire and, through the exploitation of its human and natural resources, develop the economic and military might to challenge British and French pretensions in the region. Ultimately, their failure (due to imperial forced labor policies and natural disasters) caused the nefarious consequences, attributed to external capitalist and French colonial policies.
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"The great strength and originality of this study, however, lie in the surprising wealth of detailed economic information the author has unearthed about the fascinating attempt of the Merina monarchs to transform their society through education, industrialization, agricultural development, and the manufacture of their own weaponry. Highly recommended."
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"...a long awaited publication which fully fulfills the expectations that Campbell's previous work has raised...Campbell's study thus transforms our understanding of Madagascar and its place in the history of the western Indian Ocean region. It is also a model of how economic data can inform social and political historical analysis. This is a highly significant intervention in an era when economic history is battling to retain support especially among Africanists and other scholars of the colonial encounter for whom quantitative data have become unfashionable."
- EH.NET, Nigel Worden, University of Cape Town
"Gwyn Campbell is the leading economic historian of Madagascar, a position he has established without publishing a book. For 25 years, he has been producing well researched, well-argued and carefully written articles on the economic history of Madagascar and the Indian Ocean. recently he edited a series of books that emerged from conferences he organized in Avignon on the Indian OCean, but this is the first book he has written. It is worth the wait."
- Martin Klein, University of Toronto
"This is a much anticipated work. For the past two decades, this author has been a leading historian of Madagascar and of its palce in the southern complex of the western Indian Ocean. Many will be familiar with his numerous publications on various aspects of Malagasy history that stand as a testament to his scholarship, most notably perhaps those dealing with the island's import and export slave trades in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These are listed fully in the excellent bibliography. Meticulously researched and cogently argued, the author breaks new ground in offering detailed treatment of the economic history of Madagascar in the nineteenth century"
- Pedro Machado, New York University, the Historian
"Valuable for world and Africanist historians,...One can only hope that more economic history of this caliber will be written on other parts of Africa"
Jeremy Rich, Canadian Journal of History
"This book is an economic tour de force around 'Imperial Madagascar'."
Pier M. Larson, Johns Hopkins University, American Historical Review
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"...a long awaited publication which fully fulfills the expectations that Campbell's previous work has raised...Campbell's study thus transforms our understanding of Madagascar and its place in the history of the western Indian Ocean region. It is also a model of how economic data can inform social and political historical analysis. This is a highly significant intervention in an era when economic history is battling to retain support especially among Africanists and other scholars of the colonial encounter for whom quantitative data have become unfashionable."
- EH.NET, Nigel Worden, University of Cape Town
"Gwyn Campbell is the leading economic historian of Madagascar, a position he has established without publishing a book. For 25 years, he has been producing well researched, well-argued and carefully written articles on the economic history of Madagascar and the Indian Ocean. recently he edited a series of books that emerged from conferences he organized in Avignon on the Indian OCean, but this is the first book he has written. It is worth the wait."
- Martin Klein, University of Toronto
"This is a much anticipated work. For the past two decades, this author has been a leading historian of Madagascar and of its palce in the southern complex of the western Indian Ocean. Many will be familiar with his numerous publications on various aspects of Malagasy history that stand as a testament to his scholarship, most notably perhaps those dealing with the island's import and export slave trades in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These are listed fully in the excellent bibliography. Meticulously researched and cogently argued, the author breaks new ground in offering detailed treatment of the economic history of Madagascar in the nineteenth century"
- Pedro Machado, New York University, the Historian
"Valuable for world and Africanist historians,...One can only hope that more economic history of this caliber will be written on other parts of Africa"
Jeremy Rich, Canadian Journal of History
"This book is an economic tour de force around 'Imperial Madagascar'."
Pier M. Larson, Johns Hopkins University, American Historical Review
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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. This study reveals that the Merina of the Central Highlands attempted to found an island empire and through the exploitation of its human and natural resources build the economic and military might to challenge British and French pretensions in the region. Ultimately, the Merina failed due to imperial forced labour policies and natural disasters, the nefarious consequences of which (disease; depopulation; ethnic enmity) have in traditional histories been imputed external capitalist and French colonial policies.
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Until recently, the history of Madagascar has been a well-guarded Gallic secret. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chapitre inconnu, capitale montagnarde, slave export trade, porterage system, slave syndicate, independent west coast, doctrines coloniales, slave exports, autarkic policies, traite des esclaves, imperial ports, gum copal, colonial party, slave mortality, slave porters, hide exports, poison ordeal, imported arms, cotton piece goods, brigand bands, slave imports, coast exports, missions catholiques, crown monopoly, industrial experiment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Role of the London Missionary Society, East Africa, History of Madagascar, Indian Ocean, Port Louis, New England Merchants, Gwyn Campbell, Mozambique Channel, South Africa, United States, New York, Slave Catching, European Partition of Africa, Ropes Emmerton, Cape Town, Jean Valette, Hanes Madagascar, Raymond Decary, Third Assistant Secretary of State, West Africa, Monographie des Betsileo, Exchange Economy, Great Britain, Donald Currie, Franco-Merina War New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Until recently, the history of Madagascar has been a well-guarded Gallic secret. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
chapitre inconnu, capitale montagnarde, slave export trade, porterage system, slave syndicate, independent west coast, doctrines coloniales, slave exports, autarkic policies, traite des esclaves, imperial ports, gum copal, colonial party, slave mortality, slave porters, hide exports, poison ordeal, imported arms, cotton piece goods, brigand bands, slave imports, coast exports, missions catholiques, crown monopoly, industrial experiment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Role of the London Missionary Society, East Africa, History of Madagascar, Indian Ocean, Port Louis, New England Merchants, Gwyn Campbell, Mozambique Channel, South Africa, United States, New York, Slave Catching, European Partition of Africa, Ropes Emmerton, Cape Town, Jean Valette, Hanes Madagascar, Raymond Decary, Third Assistant Secretary of State, West Africa, Monographie des Betsileo, Exchange Economy, Great Britain, Donald Currie, Franco-Merina War New!
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