An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island EmpireThe 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. |
Contents
The Traditional Economy 17501820 Industry and Agriculture | 18 |
The Traditional Economy 17501820 Commerce | 40 |
Empire and the Adoption of Autarky 18101826 | 59 |
Industry and Agriculture 18201895 | 79 |
Labor 18201895 | 112 |
Population 18201895 | 134 |
The Trading Structure 18201895 | 161 |
Foreign Trade 18201895 | 181 |
Currency and Finance 18201895 | 276 |
Madagascar in the Scramble for Indian Ocean Africa | 305 |
The Rise and Fall of Imperial Madagascar | 340 |
French Claims to Madagascar | 342 |
British Imperial Influence in Madagascar | 343 |
Population References | 344 |
Bibliography | 347 |
Glossary | 379 |
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Page 5 - Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Before European Hegemony: The World System AD 1250-1350 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Page 352 - A Man in Shining Armour. The Story of the Life of William Wilson MRCS. and LRCP Missionary in Madagascar. Secretary of the Friends' Foreign Missionary Association (London, nd), 96; LMS, Ten Years Review of Mission Work.
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Page 6 - Beta globin haplotype analysis suggests that a major source of Malagasy ancestry is derived from Bantu-speaking Negroids.