ISBN:
1-57181-310-1
,
978-1-57181-310-7
,
1-57181-988-6 /Hb.
,
978-1-57181-988-8/Hb.
Language:
English
Pages:
XX, 204 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
Cameroon Studies 3
Uniform Title:
An der Westküste Afrikas
Keywords:
Kamerun Reisebericht
;
Biographie
;
Expedition
;
Kolonialgeschichte
;
Bali
;
Esser, Max [Leben und Werk]
Abstract:
Max Esser was an adventurous young merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in Cameroon. This volume gives a vivid account of the antecedents and early stages as experienced and described by Esser. In 1896 he ventured, with the explorer Zintgraff, into the hinterland to seek the agreement of Zintgraff's old ally, the ruler of Bali, for the provision of laborers for his projected enterprise. The consequences, many optimistically unforeseen, are illustrated with the help of contemporary materials. Esser's account is preceded by a look at his and his family's connections, added to by an account of newspaper campaigns against him, and completed by an examination of his Cameroon collection, which he gave to the Linden Museum in Stuttgart. (Verlagsangaben)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Maps and Illustrations ix Abbreviations -- Preface by the Editors -- Editorial Note -- Acknowledgements .. PART I THE SETTING, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE -- 1. Max Esser: His Life and Labours, by Ute Roschenthaler -- Key to Family Photographs -- PART II ESSER'S TRAVELS -- 2. The Outward Voyage -- 3. Sao Thomé and Principe -- 4. Cameroon - the Historical Background -- 5. Land and People in Cameroon -- 6. In Cameroon -- 7. The Expedition to Bali -- 8. Departure from Cameroon -- 9. Angola, and the Cunene Expedition -- 10. A Retrospective View -- PART III COLONIAL NEEDS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES: THE VIEWPOINTS OF SOME CONTEMPORARY OBSERVERS -- 11. The 'Bali Road' and Baliburg in the Autumn of 1892: a Report on a Visit: Max von Stetten -- 12. A Complication: the Entry of the Gesellschaft Nordwest Kamerun, 1901-1903: Esser's Correspondence -- 13. A Parliamentary Visitation: Johannes Semler's Togo und Kamerun: Eindrücke und Momentaryfuahmen [sic! Momentaufnahmen] von einem dentschen Abgeordneten, Leipzig, 1905 -- 14. A Soldier's View of the Tasks of the Bamenda Military Station 1908: Hptm. Menzel -- 15. Labour Supply: a Shift of Modalities, 1913: Hptm. Adametz -- Appendix I The 'Esser Affair' -- Appendix II The 'Fetishes' and the Esser Collection at the Linden Museum, by Ute Roschenthaler -- Maps -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 189-200"literal translation of that part of Esser's book [An der Westküste Afrikas: wirtschaftliche und Jagd-Streifzüge. Berlin 1898] which deals with his expedition to Bali-Nyonga [...]. Parts of the other chapters are summarized." (Editorial note)
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