The African-British long eighteenth century : an analysis of African-British treaties, colonial economics, and anthropological discourse / / Tcho Mbaimba Caulker
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| Autore: |
Caulker Tcho Mbaimba <1977->
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| Titolo: |
The African-British long eighteenth century : an analysis of African-British treaties, colonial economics, and anthropological discourse / / Tcho Mbaimba Caulker
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, MD, : Lexington Books, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 325.3410966 |
| 325/.3410966 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Nonfiction |
| History | |
| Literary Criticism | |
| 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 | |
| Classificazione: | HIS001000HIS015000LIT004010 |
| 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.: | 9910953294203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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