Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 252 p)
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map
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0521566649
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0521562287
Series Statement:
African studies series 96
Content:
This is a book about 'middlemen': Africans who functioned as intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland for over 300 years. Based on written and oral sources, it follows the Duala, a critical community, from precolonial history to the end of colonialism, covering both German and French colonial role
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-249) and index
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Cover; Half-title; Series-title; TItle; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 From fishermen to middlemen: the Duala inland and on the coast in the formative period, c. 1500-c. 1830; 3 Hegemony without control: the Duala, Europeans and the Littoral hinterland in the era of legitimate/free trade,…; 4 Mythic transformation and historical continuity: Duala middlemen and German colonial rule, 1884-1914; 5 Middlemen as ethnic elite: the Duala under French mandate rule, 1914-1941
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6 Between colonialism and radical nationalism: middlemen in the era of decolonization, c. 1941-c. 1960Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521562287
Additional Edition:
Print version Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers : The Duala and their Hinterland, c.1600-c.1960
Language:
English
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