Bøger af Gwyn Campbell

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 to development and deforestation. The book emphasizes the embeddedness of Malagasy peoples¿ social relationships with the natural environment, and contrasts this with the way the Malagasy environment is viewed by international conservation organizations. Through the presentation of concrete case studies, the contributors assess the current controversy over the history and nature of human impact on the environment in Madagascar, and offer innovatory insights into how these controversies, which plague current policy making, can be settled.

This book explores the life of Robert Lyall, surgeon, botanist, voyager, British Agent to the court of Madagascar.

Through the lens of human-environment interaction, Gwyn Campbell studies Africa's relations with the Indian Ocean world (IOW) from early times up to 1900. In so doing, Campbell radically challenges Eurocentric temporal, spatial and thematic paradigms, and lays the foundations for a new historical interpretation of the IOW.

Focusing upon specific indigenous societies and Islam, this collection examines the meaning of slavery and its abolition in and around the Western Indian Ocean area. Comparisons are made between developments in this region and the Atlantic slavery system.