Children of the Soil: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar - Paperbackby Tasha Rijke Epstein (Author) In Children of the Soil, Tasha Rijke Epstein offers an urban history of the port city of Mahajanga, Madagascar, before, during, and after colonization. Drawing on archival and ethnographic evidence, she weaves together the lives and afterlives of built spaces to show how city residents negotiated imperial encroachment, colonial rule, and global racial capitalism over two centuries. From Mahajanga's hilltop palace to the