This book is about the Duala "middlemen," who functioned as intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland for over three hundred years. Originally traders in ivory, slaves and palm products, they then became colonial-era cocoa planters, and finally took a leading role in anti-colonial politics. One of their lasting advantages was European education, which they used to develop ideas about their ethnicity and its historical basis. The authors criticize these local beliefs about the past but indicate what they reveal about power and identity in this region and elsewhere in Africa.
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"With a sure hand, the authors analyze Duala trading history with reference to the historiography of the more important trading communities of southeastern Nigeria. Their coverage of economic, political, social, and cultural changes will be of interest to scholars of a number of disciplines." David Northup, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"...let us be grateful for their thorough history of the Duala which will not be superceded soon." Jan Vansina, American Historical Review
"...let us be grateful for their thorough history of the Duala which will not be superceded soon." Jan Vansina, American Historical Review
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This book is about the Duala 'middlemen', who functioned as intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland for over 300 years. Originally traders in ivory, slaves and palm products, they then became colonial-era cocoa planters, and finally took a leading role in anti-colonial politics. One of their lasting advantages was European education, which they used to develop ideas about their ethnicity and its historical basis. The authors criticize these local beliefs about the past but indicate what they reveal about power and identity in this region and elsewhere in Africa.
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Nowhere do the multiple possibilities for constructing any history come into such obvious confrontation as in accounts of beginnings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
expropriation crisis, expropriation question, expropriation issue, mandate regime, mandate status, middleman role, colonial annexation, middleman position, palm oil trade, politique linguistique, palm products, inland peoples, annexation treaty, cocoa farms, merchant firms, ethnic elite, cocoa plantations, interior peoples, radical nationalism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Duala Manga, World War, League of Nations, King Bell, West African, Middlemen of the Cameroon, Old Calabar, Soppo Priso, Court of Equity, Rio del Rey, Lobe Bell, King Acqua, Betote Akwa, West Cameroon, Cameroon Littoral, Mandessi Bell, Niger Delta, Richard Bell, Sawa Bantu, Charley Deido, Dika Akwa, Gold Coast, Mpondo Akwa, New Bell, King Akwa New!
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Nowhere do the multiple possibilities for constructing any history come into such obvious confrontation as in accounts of beginnings. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
expropriation crisis, expropriation question, expropriation issue, mandate regime, mandate status, middleman role, colonial annexation, middleman position, palm oil trade, politique linguistique, palm products, inland peoples, annexation treaty, cocoa farms, merchant firms, ethnic elite, cocoa plantations, interior peoples, radical nationalism Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Duala Manga, World War, League of Nations, King Bell, West African, Middlemen of the Cameroon, Old Calabar, Soppo Priso, Court of Equity, Rio del Rey, Lobe Bell, King Acqua, Betote Akwa, West Cameroon, Cameroon Littoral, Mandessi Bell, Niger Delta, Richard Bell, Sawa Bantu, Charley Deido, Dika Akwa, Gold Coast, Mpondo Akwa, New Bell, King Akwa New!
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- Introduction to the History of Cameroon: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Martin Njeuma in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Miniset B. Economic History (Routledge Library Editions: The Economics) by G.C. Allen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- RL E: Anthropology and Ethnography: Leopards and Leaders: Constitutional Politics among a Cross River People (Routledge Library Editions: Anthropology and Ethnography) by Malcolm Ruel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Nigeria in the First World War (Ibadan history series) by Akinjide Osuntokun in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- RC Series Bundle: The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics) by Homi K. Bhabha in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Côte d'Ivoire, 1880-1995 (African Studies) by Thomas J. Bassett in Back Cover
- Slaves, Freedmen and Indentured Laborers in Colonial Mauritius (African Studies) by Richard B. Allen in Back Matter
- Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870: A Tragedy of Manners (African Studies) by Robert Ross in Back Cover
- Transforming Mozambique: The Politics of Privatization, 1975-2000 (African Studies) by M. Anne Pitcher in Back Cover
- The Politics of Evil: Magic, State Power and the Political Imagination in South Africa (African Studies) by Clifton Crais in Back Cover
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