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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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
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| Series: | African studies series ;
96. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.