Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 268 Seiten, 3 Faltblätter
,
Karten
Edition:
Reprinted lithographically
Series Statement:
Oxford Studies in African Affairs
Keywords:
Sudan Sahara
;
Kolonie, britisch
;
Kolonialgeschichte
;
Geschichte, politische
Description / Table of Contents:
List of maps -- 1. The African Association, 1788-1805 -- 2. The British government and the Niger quest, 1805-18 -- 3. The northern gateway, 1818-25 -- 4. Sokoto, Timbuctu, and the Niger, 1825-41 -- 5. The caravan trade in the nineteenth century -- 6. The diplomatic attack on the trans-Saharan slave trade -- 7. The vice-consulates of the Sahara -- 8. The central African mission, 1849-57 -- 9. British withdrawal from the Sahara -- Appendices. 1. Arabic names assumed by the explorers. 2. Consular agents in Tripoli and the Sahara. 3. Treaty beween H.M. the Queen of England and the sovereign of the Kingdom of Bornoo and its dependencies. 4. Political conditions in the western Sudan in the first half of the nineteenth century. 5. The nature of the Fulani rebellion. 6. Al Baka'i's letter to the Sultan of Masina -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [253]-257"This book is based on the thesis which I submitted to the University of London in June 1959 for the Ph.D. degree." (Preface)
,
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of London, 1959, entitled British Penetration of the Sahara and Western Sudan, 1788-1861
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