Cameroon's Tycoon : : Max Esser's Expedition and its Consequences / / ed. by E.M. Chilver, Ute Röschenthaler.

• HerausgeberIn: Chilver, E.M.,; Röschenthaler, Ute,
• MitwirkendeR: Röschenthaler, Ute,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Cameroon Studies ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)

Max Esser was an adventurous young merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in Cameroon. This volume gives a vivid account of the antecedents and early stages as experienced and described by Esser. In 1896 he ventured, with the e...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• TABLE OF CONTENTS
• LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
• ABBREVATIONS
• PREFACE BY THE EDITORS
• EDITORIAL NOTE
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• PART I. The Setting, Public and Private
• 1. Max Esser: His Life and Labours
• PART II. Esser’s Travels
• 2 The Outward Voyage
• 3 Sao Thomé and Principe
• 4 Cameroon – the Historical Background
• 5 Land and People in Cameroon
• 6 In Cameroon
• 7 The Expedition to Bali
• 8 Departure from Cameroon
• 9 Angola, and the Cunene Expedition
• 10 A Retrospective View
• 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
• 12 A Complication: the Entry of the Gesellschaft Nordwest Kamerun, 1901–1903: Esser’s Correspondence
• 13 A Parliamentary Visitation: Johannes Semler’s Togo und Kamerun: Eindrücke und Momentaufnahmen von einem deutschen Abgeordneten, Leipzig, 1905
• 14 A Soldier’s View of the Tasks of the Bamenda Military Station in 1908: Hptm. Menzel
• 15 Labour Supply: a Shift of Modalities, 1913: Hptm. Adametz
• APPENDIX I. The ‘Esser Affair’
• APPENDIX II. The ‘Fetishes’ and the Esser Collection at the Linden Museum
• Map 1
• Map 2
• Bibliography
• Index