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Peter Thonning and Denmark's Guinea Commission : a study in nineteenth-century African colonial geography /
"Several years before Denmark legislated against the Atlantic slave trade in 1792, the government, anticipating the decline of production in the Danish West Indies as a consequence, embarked on a policy of agricultural colonization in West Africa. Peter Thonning, a young natural historian of th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
©2013.
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| Colección: | Atlantic world (Leiden, Netherlands) ;
v. 24. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Guinea Commission commences its investigation : Isert's colonial expedition of 1788
- Denmark's abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, 1792 : the African colonial alternative
- Africa in the Atlantic world : Guinea plantations on the West Indian model
- Peter Thonning's African sojourn and the formaton of his colonial views
- Reports and reverberations : Thonning's early African writing
- The Atlantic triangel stood on its head : African undertakings after the cessation of the Danish slave trade in 1803
- "For colonization, a more desirable country cannot be found" : plantation experiments during the war years
- An eye to the future : colonial ambitions in a time of retrenchment
- Fresh colonial momentum in the early 1820s
- Conflicting colonial schemes in the late 1820s
- The literary impulse : a young colonial officer's essays on Denmark's African future
- Plumbing the archives : the Commission frames it's debate
- Teh Guinea Commission in a changed colonial climate
- The tide again turns : new African colonial impetus
- The colonial dénouement, Denmark's withdrawal from Africa and the colonial upshot.