Cameroon's tycoon
Subtitle: Max Esser's expedition and its consequences
By: edited by E.M. Chilver and Ute Röschenthaler.
Contributors: Chilver, E. M.; Röschenthaler, Ute.
Series: Cameroon studies ;; v. 3
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Esser, Max; Plantations -- Cameroon -- History; Bali (African people); Germans -- Cameroon -- History; Cameroon -- History; Africa, West -- Description and travel; Cameroon -- Economic conditions -- To 1960
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: List of Maps and Illustrations ix; title: Abbreviations xii; title: Preface by the Editors xiii; title: Editorial Note xvi; title: Acknowledgements xviii; title: PART I THE SETTING, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE; title: 1. Max Esser: His Life and Labours 3; title: by Ute Roschenthaler; title: Key to Family Photographs 28; title: PART II ESSER'S TRAVELS; title: 2. The Outward Voyage 31; title: 3. Sao Thome and Principe 35; title: 4. Cameroon - the Historical Background 43; title: 5. Land and People in Cameroon 49; title: 6. In Cameroon 57; title: 7. The Expedition to Bali 65; title: 8. Departure from Cameroon 113; title: 9. Angola, and the Cunene Expedition 117; title: 10. A Retrospective View 125; title: PART III COLONIAL NEEDS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES: THE; title: VIEWPOINTS OF SOME CONTEMPORARY OBSERVERS; title: 11. The 'Bali Road' and Baliburg in the Autumn of 1892:; title: a Report on a Visit: Max von Stetten 133; title: 12. A Complication: the Entry of the Gesellschaft Nordwest; title: Kamerun, 1901-1903: Esser's Correspondence 141; title: 13. A Parliamentary Visitation: Johannes Semler's Togo und; title: Kamerun: Eindriicke und Momentaryfuahmen vou einem; title: dentschen Abgeordneten, Leipzig, 1905 147; title: 14. A Soldier's View of the Tasks of the Bamenda Military; title: Station 1908: Hptm. Menzel 153; title: 15. Labour Supply: a Shift of Modalities, 1913: Hptm.; title: Adametz 159; title: Appendix I The'Esser Affair' 165; title: Appendix II The 'Fetishes' and the Esser Collection at the; title: Linden Museum, by Ute Roschenthaler 171; title: Maps 185; title: Select Bibliography 189; title: Index 201.