Submitted: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 14:32:30 -0400 Gerald M. Berg Professor of History Sweet Briar College Sweet Briar, Virginia 24595 USA e-mail: gberg@sbc.edu Research interest: Madagascar: precolonial history "Radama's Smile: Domestic Challenges to Royal Ideology in Early Nineteenth-century Imerina", _History in Africa_, Vol.25 (1998).