Madagascar (Malagasy Republic)

Basics:

CIA World Factbook. Includes map.

New Internationalist Profile

UN Development Program, Human Development Indicators

World Guide

On the Web: Articles

On the Web: Specialized Sites

WWW Virtual Library

In the Library: Articles:

Gow, Bonar A. "Admiral Didier Ratsiraka & the Malagasy Socialist Revolution," Journal of Modern African Studies 35,3 (9/97):409-40.

Little, D. "Cold war & colonialism in Africa: the US, France & the Madagascar Revolt of 1947," Pacific Historical Review 59,4 (11/90):527-52.

Meldrum, Andrew. "Trouble in paradise," Africa Report 37,5 (9-10/94):61-64.

Thomas, Martin. "Imperial backwater or strategic outpost? The British takeover of Vichy Madagascar, 1942," Journal of Third World Studies 11,1 (spr 94):336-69.

Walsh, A. "When origins matter: the politics of commemoration in northern Madagascar," Ethnohistory 48,1-2 (win-spr 2001):237-56.

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books:

Allen, Philip M. Madagascar: Conflicts of Authority in the Great Island (Boulder: Westview, 1995).

Cole, Jennifer. Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice & the Art of Memory in Madagascar (Berkeley: U. California, 2002).

Covell, M. Madagascar: Politics, Economics & Society (London: F. Pinter, 1987).

Deleris, Ferdinand. Ratsiraka: Socialisme et Misere a Madagascar (Paris: L'Harmattan, 1986).

Feeley-Harnik, Gilliam. A Green Estate: Restoring Independence in Madagascar (Washington, 1991).

Harper, Janice. Endangered Species: Health, Illness & Death among Madagascar's People of the Forest (Durham NC: Carolina Academic, 2002).

Heseltine, Nigel. Madagascar (London: Pall Mall, 1971).

Howe, Sonia. The Drama of Madagascar (London, 1938).

Jolly, Alison. A World Like Our Own. Man & Nature in Madagascar (New Haven: Yale U., 1980).

Kent, Raymond. From Madagascar to the Malagasy Republic (NY: Praeger, 19??).

Mannoni, O. Prospero & Caliban. The Psychology of Colonization (NY, 1956).

McElroy, Colleen J. Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar (Seattle: U. of Washington, 1999).

McLeod, Lyons. Madagascar & its People (NY, 1969).

Middleton, Karen (ed.) Ancestors, Power, & History in Madagascar (Leiden: Brill, 1999).

Rabemananjara, Raymond W. Madagascar: l'affaire de mars 1947 (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000).

Thompson, Virginia. The Malagasy Republic (Stanford: Stanford U., 1965).

Tronchon, Jacques. L'insurrection malgache de 1947: essai d'interpretation historique (Paris: Maspero, 1974).

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