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The African-British long eighteenth century : an analysis of African-British treaties, colonial economics, and anthropological discourse /
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 Harma...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, MD :
Lexington Books,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: the African-British long eighteenth century
- Long eighteenth-century fictive literature and filling vacuum of Africa
- British-African treaty making and the construction of a British colonial state in Sierra Leone
- 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
- Natural science, exploration, and the colonial project in West Africa
- The Last harmattan of Alusine Dunbar, and bringing the long eighteenth-century archival past into the postcolonial present
- Epilogue: the African-British long eighteenth century and imagination
- Appendix of treaties
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author.