Peter Thonning and Denmark's Guinea Commission : a study in nineteenth-century African colonial geography / / by Daniel Hopkins.
Several years before Denmark legislated against the Atlantic slave trade in 1792, the government, anticipating the decline of production in the Danish West Indies as a consequence, embarked on a policy of agricultural colonization in West Africa. Peter Thonning, a young natural historian of the high...
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Superior document: | Atlantic world : Europe, Africa and the Americas, 1500-1830, v. 24 |
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Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
v. 24. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (759 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Early colonial experiments
- pt. II. Science and colonialism : Peter Thonning's expedition
- pt. III. Colonial developments during the Napoleonic Wars and the ensuing depression
- pt. IV. Renewed interest in African colonialism in Copenhagen
- pt. V. Conflicting views of the colonial world : the Guinea Commission and the closing of an era.