Swedish Ventures in Cameroon, 1883-1923 : : Trade and Travel, People and Politics /

Swedish Ventures in Cameroon, 1883-1923 : : Trade and Travel, People and Politics / / ed. by Shirley Ardener.

The 1880s were a critical time in Cameroon. A German warship arrived in the Douala estuary and proclaimed Cameroon a protectorate. At that time, two Swedes, Knutson and Waldau, were living on the upper slopes of the Cameroon Mountain. Very little is known about their activities. One, Knutson, wrote...

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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, Shirley,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Cameroon Studies ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t TABLE OF CONTENTS --   |t LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES --   |t PREFACE How I came to edit the memoir --   |t PART I Introduction --   |t CHAPTER 1 Biographical Notes on Knutson and Waldau --   |t CHAPTER 2 The Manuscript --   |t PART II Knutson’s Memoir: The Cameroon Mountains and the Biafran Swamps --   |t CHAPTER 1 From Sweden to Cameroon --   |t CHAPTER 2 Fauna and Flora --   |t CHAPTER 3 Misery and India-rubber --   |t CHAPTER 4 The German Invasion 1884–1885 --   |t CHAPTER 5 Travel in the Interior 1885 --   |t CHAPTER 6 The Ancient Races --   |t CHAPTER 7 Adventures on Cameroon Mountains and in Biaffran Swamps --   |t CHAPTER 8 Religion and Customs of the Bakweri and Bomboko --   |t CHAPTER 9 The Slave Trade --   |t CHAPTER 10 Black and White --   |t CHAPTER 11 The Missionaries, the Explorers and the Men I met at the Cameroons --   |t CHAPTER 12 The Future of the Cameroons --   |t PART III Land and Plantations --   |t CHAPTER 1 Knutson and Waldau’s Contracts with the Notables on the Cameroon Mountain --   |t CHAPTER 2 Knutson’s Legal Battles --   |t CHAPTER 3 Waldau’s Last Years in Cameroon --   |t PART IV Alternative Perspectives --   |t CHAPTER 1 About the Ba-kwileh [Bakweri] People --   |t CHAPTER 2 Epitome of Waldau’s Journey to the Country North of the Cameroon Mountain --   |t CHAPTER 3 Sir Richard Burton’s Visit to Mapanja, 1861–1862 (Extracts) --   |t CHAPTER 4 George Thomson’s Stay in Mapanja 1871–1879 --   |t CHAPTER 5 Stefan Sczolc-Rogozinski --   |t CHAPTER 6 Hugo Zöller, Journalist --   |t BIBLIOGRAPHY --   |t INDEX 
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