Feeding Globalization. Jane Hooper
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ADVANCE PRAISE FOR FEEDING GLOBALIZATION
“Hooper meticulously reconstructs a convincing picture of how the steady demands of European shipping and colonies for food supplies stimulated the emergence of state formation in western and eastern Madagascar.”
—Edward A. Alpers, author of The Indian Ocean in World History
“Hooper has done a fine job by pushing the history of Madagascar’s economic ties with the exterior into territory not adequately explored (or explored at all) by other historians.”
—Pier M. Larson, author of Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora
“This important book highlights Madagascar’s key role in the Indian Ocean’s maritime and commercial circuits as a provider of foodstuffs and provisions. These fueled the commodity and the slave exchanges, which in turn braided a variety of historical actors together within the ocean and beyond.”
—Pedro Machado, author of Ocean of Trade: South Asian Merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean, c. 1750–1850
“Jane Hooper sheds light on a crucial yet unexplored aspect of early modern globalization. Feeding Globalization chronicles the extent to which European shipping in the southwest Indian Ocean relied on provisions obtained in Madagascar to literally feed global trade across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans while fueling state formation and slaving on the island.”
—Kerry Ward, author of Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company
“Jane Hooper’s groundbreaking study of Madagascar’s provisioning trade offers a fascinating new perspective on Indian Ocean exchanges, European long-distance trade, Madagascan engagement with global markets, and the transformation of the island in the early modern era.”
—Jeremy Prestholdt, author of Domesticating the World: African Consumerism and the Genealogies of Globalization
FEEDING GLOBALIZATION
Indian Ocean Studies Series
Richard B. Allen, series editor
Richard B. Allen, European Slave Trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500–1850
Erin E. Stiles and Katrina Daly Thompson, eds., Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean: Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast
Jane Hooper, Feeding Globalization: Madagascar and the Provisioning Trade, 1600–1800
ADVISORY BOARD
Edward A. Alpers
University of California, Los Angeles, Emeritus
Clare Anderson
University of Leicester
Sugata Bose
Harvard University
Ulbe Bosma
International Institute of Social History, Leiden
Janet Ewald
Duke University
Devleena Ghosh
University of Technology Sydney
Enseng Ho
Duke University
Isabel Hofmeyr
University of the Witwatersrand
Pier M. Larson
Johns Hopkins University
Om Prakash
University of Delhi (emeritus)
Himanshu Prabha Ray
National Monuments Authority, India
Kerry Ward
Rice University
Nigel Worden
University of Cape Town
Markus Vink
SUNY at Fredonia
Feeding Globalization
Madagascar and the Provisioning Trade, 1600–1800
JANE HOOPER
OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS
ATHENS, OHIO
Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hooper, Jane, 1981– author.
Title: Feeding globalization : Madagascar and the provisioning trade, 1600/1800 / Jane Hooper.
Other titles: Indian Ocean studies series.
Description: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2017. | Series: Indian Ocean studies series | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017008599| ISBN 9780821422533 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821422540 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821445945 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Slave trade—Madagascar—History—17th century. | Slave trade—Madagascar—History—18th century. | Food industry and trade—Political aspects—Madagascar—History—17th century. | Food industry and trade—Political aspects—Madagascar—History—18th century. | Madagascar—Commerce. | Madagascar—Politics and government—17th century. | Madagascar—Politics and government—18th century.
Classification: LCC DT469.M31 H66 2017 | DDC 969.101—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017008599
Contents
Chapter 1. Feasts and Violence
Chapter 2. “The Richest and Most Fruitful Island in the World”
Chapter 3. The Sakalava: From Warriors to Merchants
Chapter 4. The Betsimisaraka, Pirate Kings
Chapter 5. Rituals of Consumption, Rituals of Domination