Ralph A. Austen, Ralph Derrick, Jonathan Derrick

Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers

The Duala and Their Hinterland, C.1600 C.1960

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A book about Duala 'middlemen', intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland over three centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780521566643
• ISBN-10: 0521566649
• Artikelnr.: 21340112

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. From fishermen to middlemen: the Duala inland and on
the coast in the formative period, c.1600-1830; 3. Hegemony without
control: the Duala, Europeans and the littoral hinterland in the era of
legitimate/free trade c.1830-84; 4. Mythic transformation and historical
continuity: Duala middlemen and German colonial rule, 1884-1914; 5.
Middlemen as ethnic elite: the Duala under Grench mandate rule, 1914-41; 6.
Between colonialism and radical nationalism: middlemen in the era of
decolonization, c.1941-c.1960.