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Autore: | Caulker Tcho Mbaimba <1977-> |
Titolo: | The African-British long eighteenth century [[electronic resource] ] : an analysis of African-British treaties, colonial economics, and anthropological discourse / / Tcho Mbaimba Caulker |
Pubblicazione: | Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
Disciplina: | 325.3410966 |
325/.3410966 | |
Soggetto geografico: | Africa History 18th century |
Africa, West Relations Great Britain History 18th century | |
Great Britain Relations Africa, West History 18th century | |
Great Britain Colonies Africa Administration History 18th century | |
Africa, West In literature | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 01. Long Eighteenth-Century Fictive Literature and Filling the Vacuum of Africa; Chapter 02. British-African Treaty Making and the Construction of a British Colonial State in Sierra Leone; Chapter 03. Reading the British Sierra Leone Company: The Sierra Leone Company and its Ties to Emergent Colonial, Economic, and Moral Philosophy of the Long Eighteenth Century; Chapter 04. Natural Science, Exploration, and the Colonial Project in West Africa |
Chapter 05. The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar, and Bringing the Long Eighteenth-Century Archiva lPast into the Postcolonial PresentEpilogue: The African-British Long Eighteenth Century and Imagination; Appendix of Treaties; Bibliography; Index; About the Author | |
Sommario/riassunto: | This book traces the emergence of British colonial administration in West Africa during the long eighteenth century through analysis of colonial archival documents, such as the African-British Treaties and the Reports of the British Sierra Leone Company, and concludes with analysis of The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar by Syl Cheney-Coker, a postcolonial novel that examines the eighteenth century period. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The African-British long eighteenth century |
ISBN: | 1-282-49433-3 |
9786612494338 | |
0-7391-3487-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910782845403321 |
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