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Cameroon's tycoon : Max Esser's expedition and its consequences

Title
Cameroon's tycoon : Max Esser's expedition and its consequences / edited by E.M. Chilver and Ute Röschenthaler.
Author
Esser, Max.
Publication
New York : Berghahn Books, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Chilver, E. M.
  • Röschenthaler, Ute.
Description
xx, 204 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Cameroon studies ; 3
Uniform Title
  • An der Westküste Afrikas. Selections. English
  • Cameroon studies ; v. 3.
Alternative Title
An der Westküste Afrikas.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index.
Contents
  • Preface / The Editors -- Pt. I. The Setting, Public and Private. 1. Max Esser: His Life and Labours / Ute Roschenthaler -- Key to Family Photographs -- Pt. II. Esser's Travels. 2. The Outward Voyage. 3. Sao Thome 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 -- Pt. 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: Eindrucke und Momentaryfuahmen vou einem dentschen Abgeordneten, Leipzig, 1905. 14. A Soldier's View of the Tasks of the Bamenda Military Station 1908: Hptm. Menzel.
  • 15. Labour Supply: a Shift of Modalities, 1913: Hptm. Adametz. App. I. The 'Esser Affair' -- App. II. The 'Fetishes' and the Esser Collection at the Linden Museum / Ute Roschenthaler.
ISBN
  • 1571819886 (acid-free paper)
  • 1571813101 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
LCCN
2001035397
OCLC
  • ocm46836877
  • SCSB-4266354
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries