Cameroon's tycoon [electronic resource] : Max Esser's expedition and its consequences / edited by E.M. Chilver and Ute Röschenthaler
- Author:
- Esser, Max
- Uniform Title:
- An der Westküste Afrikas. Selections. English
- Published:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2001.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 204 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Chilver, E. M. and Röschenthaler, Ute
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- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: List of Maps and Illustrations ix -- Abbreviations xii -- Preface by the Editors xiii -- Editorial Note xvi -- Acknowledgements xviii -- PART I THE SETTING, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE -- 1. Max Esser: His Life and Labours 3 -- by Ute Roschenthaler -- Key to Family Photographs 28 -- PART II ESSER'S TRAVELS -- 2. The Outward Voyage 31 -- 3. Sao Thome and Principe 35 -- 4. Cameroon - the Historical Background 43 -- 5. Land and People in Cameroon 49 -- 6. In Cameroon 57 -- 7. The Expedition to Bali 65 -- 8. Departure from Cameroon 113 -- 9. Angola, and the Cunene Expedition 117 -- 10. A Retrospective View 125 -- PART III COLONIAL NEEDS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES: THE -- VIEWPOINTS OF SOME CONTEMPORARY OBSERVERS -- 11. The 'Bali Road' and Baliburg in the Autumn of 1892: -- a Report on a Visit: Max von Stetten 133 -- 12. A Complication: the Entry of the Gesellschaft Nordwest -- Kamerun, 1901-1903: Esser's Correspondence 141 -- 13. A Parliamentary Visitation: Johannes Semler's Togo und -- Kamerun: Eindriicke und Momentaryfuahmen vou einem -- dentschen Abgeordneten, Leipzig, 1905 147 -- 14. A Soldier's View of the Tasks of the Bamenda Military -- Station 1908: Hptm. Menzel 153 -- 15. Labour Supply: a Shift of Modalities, 1913: Hptm. -- Adametz 159 -- Appendix I The'Esser Affair' 165 -- Appendix II The 'Fetishes' and the Esser Collection at the -- Linden Museum, by Ute Roschenthaler 171 -- Maps 185 -- Select Bibliography 189 -- Index 201.
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- ISBN:
- 1571819886 (alk. paper)
1571813101 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index.
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