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Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers : the Duala and their hinterland, c.1600-c.1960 /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Colección: | African studies series ;
96. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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. 1830-1884
- 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
- 6. Between colonialism and radical nationalism: middlemen in the era of decolonization, c. 1941-c. 1960.