Madagascar: Conflicts Of Authority In The Great Island

by Philip M. Allen

Shows how family affinities and community loyalties have influenced Malagasy nationality and forged island-wide traditions that have kept Madagascar free of foreign domination for a century, but how those same forces have also created social cleavage and hindered economic and political change. An introduction to the African country. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

254 pages, Hardcover

Published December 26, 1994