Kingdom on Mount Cameroon : : Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970 /

Kingdom on Mount Cameroon : : Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast 1500-1970 / / ed. by Edwin Ardener, Shirley Ardener.

The Bakweri people of Mount Cameroon, an active volcano on the coast of West Africa a few degrees north of the equator, have had a varied and at times exciting history which has brought them into contact, not only with other West African peoples, but with merchants, missionaries, soldiers and admini...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Ardener, Edwin,
Ardener, Shirley,
Chilver, E. M.,
Valdau, G.,
HerausgeberIn:
Ardener, Edwin,
Ardener, Shirley,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [1996]
©1996
Year of Publication:1996
Language:English
Series:Cameroon Studies ; 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (404 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES
  • PREFACE: How I came to edit the memoir
  • PART I. Introduction
  • Map
  • CHAPTER 1. Biographical Notes on Knutson and Waldau
  • CHAPTER 2. The Manuscript
  • PART II. Knutson’s Memoir. The Cameroon Mountains and the Biafran Swamps
  • Map
  • CHAPTER 1. From Sweden to Cameroon
  • CHAPTER 2. Fauna and Flora
  • CHAPTER 3. Misery and India-rubber
  • CHAPTER 4. The German Invasion 1884–1885
  • CHAPTER 5. Travel in the Interior 1885
  • CHAPTER 6. The Ancient Races
  • CHAPTER 7. Adventures on Cameroon Mountains and in Biaffran Swamps
  • CHAPTER 8. Religion and Customs of the Bakweri and Bomboko
  • CHAPTER 9. The Slave Trade
  • CHAPTER 10. Black and White
  • CHAPTER 11. The Missionaries, the Explorers and the Men I met at the Cameroons
  • CHAPTER 12. The Future of the Cameroons
  • PART III. Land and Plantations
  • CHAPTER 1. Knutson and Waldau’s Contracts with the Notables on the Cameroon Mountain
  • CHAPTER 2. Knutson’s Legal Battles
  • CHAPTER 3. Waldau’s Last Years in Cameroon
  • PART IV. Alternative Perspectives
  • CHAPTER 1. About the Ba-kwileh [Bakweri] People
  • CHAPTER 2. Epitome of Waldau’s Journey to the Country North of the Cameroon Mountain
  • CHAPTER 3. Sir Richard Burton’s Visit to Mapanja, 1861–1862 (Extracts)
  • CHAPTER 4. George Thomson’s Stay in Mapanja 1871–1879
  • CHAPTER 5. Stefan Sczolc-Rogozinski
  • CHAPTER 6. Hugo Zöller, Journalist
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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