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Gwyn Campbell is a Canada Research Chair and founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University, Montréal. He served as an academic consultant for the South African Government in the run-up to the formation of an Indian Ocean regional association in 1997 and has published widely on Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world, including David Griffiths and the Missionary 'History of Madagascar' (2012) and An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750–1895 (Cambridge, 2005).
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Téléchargez le livre :  Perceptions and Representations of the Malagasy Environment Across Cultures
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Perceptions and Representations of the Malagasy Environment Across Cultures

Gwyn Campbell , Frank Muttenzer , Jacques Pollini


Palgrave Macmillan

2023-07-13

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This book examines the history and impact of environmental change in Madagascar. Drawing on interdisciplinary, ethnographic methodologies, the book presents local and global perspectives on current environmental changes and their drivers, from mining...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Madagascar Youths
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The Madagascar Youths


Gwyn Campbell


In 1820, King Radama of Imerina, Madagascar signed a treaty allowing approximately one hundred young Malagasy to train abroad under official British supervision, the so-called 'Madagascar Youths'.In this lively and carefully researched book, Gwyn Campbell traces the...

Parution : 2022-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Travels of Robert Lyall, 1789–1831
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The Travels of Robert Lyall, 1789–1831


Gwyn Campbell


This book explores the life of Robert Lyall, surgeon, botanist, voyager, British Agent to the court of Madagascar. Born the year of the French Revolution, Lyall grew up in politically radical Paisley, Scotland, before studying medicine, in Edinburgh, Manchester, and...

Parution : 2021-01-25
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World
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Animal Trade Histories in the Indian Ocean World


Gwyn Campbell , Martha Chaiklin , Philip Gooding


This book examines trades in animals and animal products in the history of the Indian Ocean World (IOW). An international array of established and emerging scholars investigate how the roles of equines, ungulates, sub-ungulates, mollusks, and avians expand our...

Parution : 2020-07-21
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Disease Dispersion and Impact in the Indian Ocean World
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Disease Dispersion and Impact in the Indian Ocean World


Gwyn Campbell , Eva-Maria Knoll


This volume views the study of disease as essential to understanding the key historical developments underpinning the foundation of contemporary Indian Ocean World (IOW) societies. The interplay between disease and climatic conditions, natural and manmade...

Parution : 2020-03-31
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  The Palgrave Handbook of Bondage and Human Rights in Africa and Asia
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The Palgrave Handbook of Bondage and Human Rights in Africa and Asia


Gwyn Campbell , Alessandro Stanziani


In the West, human bondage remains synonymous with the Atlantic slave trade. But large slave systems in Africa and Asia predated, co-existed, and overlapped with the Atlantic system—and have persisted in modified forms well into the twenty-first century, posing major...

Parution : 2020-01-14
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Currencies of the Indian Ocean World
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Currencies of the Indian Ocean World


Gwyn Campbell , Steven Serels


This book is the first to trace the unique monetary history of the Indian Ocean World. Long-distance trade across the region was facilitated by a highly complex multi-currency system undergirded by shared ideas that transcended ethno-linguistic, religious and class...

Parution : 2019-08-24
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900
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Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900


Gwyn Campbell


The history of Africa's historical relationship with the rest of the Indian Ocean world is one of a vibrant exchange that included commodities, people, flora and fauna, ideas, technologies and disease. This connection with the rest of the Indian Ocean world, a...

Parution : 2019-07-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean
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Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean


Gwyn Campbell , Sarah Fee , Pedro Machado


This collection examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the twenty-first century, across multiple oceanic sites—from Zanzibar, Muscat and Kampala to Ajanta, Srivijaya and Osaka. It moves beyond usual focuses on a single fibre (such as...

Parution : 2018-02-09
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World
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Bondage and the Environment in the Indian Ocean World


Gwyn Campbell


Monsoon rains, winds, and currents have shaped patterns of production and exchange in the Indian Ocean world (IOW) for centuries. Consequently, as this volume demonstrates, the environment has also played a central role in determining the region’s systems of bondage and...

Parution : 2018-01-10
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World
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Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World


Gwyn Campbell


This volume comprises a selection of essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines that discuss the exchange relationship between Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world (IOW), a macro-region running from East Africa to China, from early times to about 1300 CE....

Parution : 2016-12-19
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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