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ISBN-10 :  1137559678 

ISBN-13 :  9781137559678

Author:  Eric T. Jennings 

This book provides new insight into French colonial Madagascar. The work is structured along three main lines: health and domination, the two world wars, and the mystery of Malagasy origins. The three parts are preceded by short introductions. The book showcases some of Madagascar’s defining yet often neglected features within the French colonial realm. Its conquest at the end of the nineteenth century’s scramble for Africa was notable for the way it shattered the island’s reputation for healthfulness. Its colonization coincided with a growing French need for troops in the buildup to military conflict in Europe. Lastly, the origin of the island’s people continued to both baffle and fascinate French colonial experts, be they ethnographers, linguists or historians, from the beginning to the end of the colonial period (1896-1960). Together, then, this book probes the relationship between domination and health fears, the island’s role during the two world wars, and its enduring fascination as a site that could never be neatly categorized as either African or Asian. The net result will be to underscore both the scope of the colonial project in Madagascar, and the obstacles and limits that it encountered.

Perspectives on French Colonial Madagascar 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction
Part I Health, Power and Vulnerability
Chapter 2 Disease and Conquest
Received Wisdom on the Eve of Conquest
The Nosy Be Precedent, 1841–1885
The Nosy Komba Solution
Diego-Suarez, 1885–1895
Troop Transports, 1885–1895
Sanatorium Options in 1895
Malaria and the 1895 Conquest
An Eye Inside the Debacle
Consequences
The Early Colonial Era
Joffreville and the Endurance of the Sanatorium
Chapter 3 Rabies and Resistance
Rabies and the Pasteur Franchise
A Pasteur Institute for Madagascar
Of Dogs and People
The Spread and Distribution of Rabies
Colonial Intervention and Challenges
Pre-colonial Treatments and Beliefs
Challenges to French Know-How
Reticence and Resistance
Child Victims
Canine Surveillance in the 1930s and 1940s
Epilogue
Part II The Great Island in Global Conflict, 1914–1945
Chapter 4 The Black Angel of Antananarivo
A Malagasy Royal Site
Erasing or Reclaiming Madagascar’s Royal Past?
Antananarivo’s Urban Geography
A Malagasy Cultural Site
Madagascar in World War I
A Monument for All Malagasy
Malagasy Forms and Appropriations
The Language of Sacrifice
Fundraising, Coercion, Delays and Visibility
Meanings Since 1940
Chapter 5 Tyranny in the Wartime Central Highlands
The New Order on the Red Island
A District Chief
Vichy Ideology in Action
Tilting at Windmills: The Perceived Quaker Threat
“More Royalist Than the King”
Native Policy
Malagasy Reactions
A Thorn in Antananarivo’s Side or a Postwar Insurance Policy?
Break or Continuity?
Part III The Mystery of Malagasy Origins
Chapter 6 Writing Madagascar Back into the Madagascar Plan
A Contentious and Protean Plan
Why Madagascar?
Jewish Origins Theories
Jewish “Acclimation”
Voices from Madagascar
Microclimates and Settlement Options
The Plan Unravels
The Plan Resurfaces
Epilogue
Chapter 7 Recasting Madagascar: Village Structures, Racial Anthropology, and the Meanings of Cliff M
Reinventing Malagasy Village Structures
Racial Anthropology
Mysterious Cliff Carvings
A Balance Sheet
Conclusion
Appendix
Archival Collections Consulted*
Newspapers and Journals Consulted
Bibliography
Index

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