African Islands :Leading Edges of Empire and Globalization - Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

African Islands

African Islands :Leading Edges of Empire and Globalization - Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora

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Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories of islands off the African coast Islands and island chains like Cabo Verde, Madagascar, and Bioko are often sidelined in contemporary understandings of Africa in which mainland nation-states take center stage in the crafting of historical narratives. Yet in the modern period, these small offshore spaces have often played important if inconsistent roles in facilitating intra- and intercontinental exchanges that have had lasting effects on the cultural, economic, and political landscape of Africa. In African Islands: Leading Edges of Empire and Globalism, contributors argue for the importance of Africa's islands in integrating the continent into wider networks of trade and migration that links it with Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Essays consider the cosmopolitan and culturally complex identities of Africa's islands, analyzing the process and extent to which trade, slavery, and migration bonded African elements with Asian, Arabic, and European characteristics over the years. While the continental and island nations have experienced similar cycles of invasion, boom, and bust, essayists note both similarities and striking differences in how these events precipitated economic changes in the different geographic areas. This book, a much-needed broadly comparative study of the African islands, will be an important resource for students and scholars of the region and of topics such as colonialism, economic history, and cultural hybridity.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781580469548
ISBN10 158046954X
Number Of Pages 440
Item Weight 636 g
Publisher / Reseller Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Format hardback
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African Islands: Leading Edges of Empire and Globalization will become a cornerstone reference in African studies, African diaspora studies, and broader fields that engage the diverse array of issues tightly and coherently represented in the essays. The text is comprehensive and rich; the writing fluid, eloquent, and fast paced; the analysis deeply insightful and satisfying; the expertise of the authors unimpeachable and solid; and the contribution to scholarship undeniably profound and seminal. -- Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Babcock University, Nigeria * . *
[T]he volume will inspire critical conversations about African islands and their unique roles in later African and global histories. African Islands deserves a place in the libraries of historians, geographers, anthropologists, and those interested in African area studies. * African Studies Quarterly *

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Author's Bio

TOYIN FALOLA is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, TX. He is the series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora. TOYIN FALOLA is Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin, TX. He is the series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora.

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