Perspectives on French Colonial Madagascar

Eric T. Jennings is Distinguished Professor of the History of France and the Francophonie at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of several books on French colonial history, and has received a John Simon Guggenheim fellowship as well as grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

1. Introduction.- I. Health, Power and Vulnerability.- 2. Disease and Conquest.- 3. Rabies and Resistance.- II. The Great Island in Global Conflict, 1914-1945.- 4. The Black Angel of Antananarivo.- 5. Tyranny in the Wartime Central Highlands.- III. The Mystery of Malagasy Origins.- 6. Writing Madagascar Back into the Madagascar Plan.- 7. Recasting Madagascar: Village Structures, Racial Anthropology, and the Meanings of Cliff Markings.