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Mervyn Brown. Madagascar Rediscovered. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1979. vii + 310 pp. Maps, biblio., index. $17.50, hardcover. - Bonar A. Gow. Madagascar and the Protestant Impact: The Work of British Missionaries, 1818-1895. New York: Africana Publishing Company, 1979. xviii + 266 pp. Illus., maps, tables, biblio., index. $37.50, hardcover. - Simon Ayache. Raombana. L'historien, 1809-1855. Introduction a l'edition critique de son oeuvre. Fianarantsoa: Librarie Ambozontany avel le concours du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris), 1976. 509 pp. Maps, tables, biblio. No price given, paperpack. - Alain Delivré. L'histoire des rois d'Imerina. Interprétation d'une tradition orale. Paris: C. Klincksieck avec le concours du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et l'Univrsite de Paris-X, 1974. 448 pp. Maps, tables. No price given, paperback.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2016

Gerald M. Berg*
Affiliation:
Department of History, Sweet Briar College

Abstract

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Imerina Rediscovered
Copyright
Copyright © African Studies Association 1981

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NOTES

1. See Berg, G. M., “Royal Authority and the Protector System in Nineteenth Century Imerina”, in Madagascar in History, ed. Kent, R. K. (Albany, Georgia: Foundation for Malagasy Studies, 1979), pp. 102122 Google Scholar; on European missionaries, Raison, Francoise, “Ethnographie missionnaire et fait religieux aux XIXe ,” Revue franç, de sociologie 19 (1978): 525549 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and for a case outside Imerina, see Esoavelomandroso, Manassé, “Religion et Politique: l'evangelisation du pays betsimisaraka à la fin du XIXème siècle,” Omaly sy Anio Nos. 7-8 (1978): 742 Google Scholar.

2. See Ayache, , “Introduction à l'oeuvre de Rainandriamampandry,” Annales de l'Université de Madagascar, sér. Lettres et Sciences humaines No. 10 (1969): 1150 Google Scholar; Un intellectuel malgache devant la culture européenne: l'historien Roambana”, Archipel 12 (1976): 95119 CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Esquisse pour le portrait d'une Reine: Ranavalona I”, Omaly sy Anio Nos. 1-2 (1975):251270 Google Scholar; and with Richard, C., “Une dissidence protestante malgache: l'église TranozozoroOmaly sy Anio Nos. 7-8 (1978): 133182 Google Scholar.

3. Vansina, Jan, “Memory of the Mouth”, Journal of African History 17, no. 1 (1976): 135137 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4. See also, Berg, G. M., “The Myth of Racial Strife and Merina Kinglists: The Transformation of Texts”, History in Africa 4 (1977): 130 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5. Berg, “Royal Authority”, en passim.