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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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • LIST OF MAPS AND FIGURES
  • PREFACE How I came to edit the memoir
  • PART I Introduction
  • CHAPTER 1 Biographical Notes on Knutson and Waldau
  • CHAPTER 2 The Manuscript
  • PART II Knutson’s Memoir: The Cameroon Mountains and the Biafran Swamps
  • 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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