Includes bibliographies.

Introduction / Robin Cohen -- Interpreting dependency in the Canary Islands / Miguel Sanchez-Padron -- From colonialism to confederation / Arnold Hughes -- The structure of terror in a small state / Ibrahim K. Sundiata -- Cabinda, the politics of oil in Angola's enclave / Daniel Dos Santos -- St. Helena, welfare colonialism in practice / Robin Cohen -- Cape Verde, survival without self-sufficiency / Deidre Meintel Machado -- Diego Garcia, the militarisation of an Indian Ocean island / Joneed Khan -- Prospering at the periphery / Raphael Kaplinsky -- Les survivances coloniales aux Comoros / Percy Claude Gaspart -- Mauritius, the Meade Report twenty years after / Percy Selwyn.

Contents:-Introduction / Robin Cohen -- Interpreting dependency in the Canary Islands / Miguel Sanchez-Padron -- From colonialism to confederation / Arnold Hughes -- The structure of terror in a small state / Ibrahim K. Sundiata -- Cabinda, the politics of oil in Angola's enclave / Daniel Dos Santos -- St. Helena, welfare colonialism in practice / Robin Cohen -- Cape Verde, survival without self-sufficiency / Deidre Meintel Machado -- Diego Garcia, the militarisation of an Indian Ocean island / Joneed Khan -- Prospering at the periphery / Raphael Kaplinsky -- Les survivances coloniales aux Comoros / Percy Claude Gaspart -- Mauritius, the Meade Report twenty years after / Percy Selwyn.