Marco teórico para analizar las islas africanas atlánticas

Abstract

Books concerning the Atlantic Ocean present it as two coasts divided by a sort of desert. These studies have not considered the islands as an oasis in such a desert. Our research includes the African archipelagos, the cases of Madeira, the Canaries, Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe, and the Guinea Islands of Bioko, Corisco and Annobon. These island areas have often been considered isolated, as the documentary sources indicate, but much of these apparent victims manage to obtain resources preferential treatment from the mainland bodies of power. We also fi nd claims of a certain fear of confrontation with others and diffi culty in accepting a more global view. This is a fallacy found in much of island. There are certain common characteristics that have endured in these islands, by virtue of the fact that islands depend on centers of authority located at considerable distances. Their location on linking routes to three continents led to the fi rst globalization since the world economic. The islands have sometimes been described metaphorically as a bridge but we prefer to speak of doors. These islands have been an entrance and exit for goods, people, culture and ideas, opened or closed, depending on your point of view. Their location has been instrumental in forming the island societies and their economic development, the fact of belonging to a European crown has marked their development, culture and way of life in line with southern Europe. The very remoteness of the Iberian Peninsula in history made them semi-peripheral social formations.