The Practical Imperialist : : Letters from a Danish Planter in German East Africa 1888-1906 / / edited by Jane Parpart, Marianne Rostgaard.

• Superior document: Sources for African History ; 4
• TeilnehmendeR: Parpart, Jane,; Rostgaard, Marianne,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Sources for African History ; 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 235 p. ); ill., maps
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This book provides a rare opportunity to follow the daily life on and around plantations and towns in the first years of the German colonial presence in East Africa, as seen through the eyes of a Danish master farmer working for the German East Africa Company. There are few memoirs and personal letters from these years, and existent letters are primarily by explorers, colonial officials, missionaries or the occasional settler. Lautherborn's material provides one of the very few entry points into the daily business of colonial expansion and consolidation in the early years of German East Africa as seen through the eyes of a practical man trying to do a job in a complex and changing world.

Table of Contents

List of llustrations. -- Foreword by Mogens Thøgersen , Director of Vendsyssel Historiske -- Museum -- Foreword by the editors -- Note on editing -- Map of Tanganyika with names of places and tribal names -- Modern map (1976) of the Northern East Coast of Tanzania -- Chapter 1 Christian Lautherborn: The Danish Context -- Chapter 2 The African Context: German East Africa 1888-1906 -- Chapter 3 Journey to Africa and Settling In -- Chapter 4 The War in East Africa: Pangani and Bagamoyo -- Chapter 5 End of War in Bagamoyo and Stanley's Visit -- Chapter 6 Rebuilding Bagamoyo and Return to Pangani -- Chapter 7 Kikogwe: The Cotton Plantation -- Chapter 8 Kikogwe and Mwera: Cotton and Coffee -- Chapter 9 Kikogwe and Sisal: Last Years in Africa -- Bibliography (Chapters 3-9) -- Glossary -- Index.