An African family archive
Adam Jones, Peter Sebald · 2005
על הספר
"This is a rare and detailed account of what it meant to individual Africans to be turned almost overnight into colonial subjects in the nineteenth century." "The Lawson family of Aneho, a small town on the coast of Togo, possesses a letterbook of 718 documents in English, and this is the first attempt to publish such a source in its entirety. The correspondence dates mainly from the periods 1841-77 (relating to the transition from the Atlantic slave trade to 'legitimate trade', mainly in palm oil) and 1883-85 (a period dominated by the efforts of King G. A. Lawson III to prevent Aneho and its surroundings from becoming part of a French or German colony.)" "The volume also contains documents from the early twentieth century, including some illuminating pieces of local historiography. The documents are framed by a comprehensive editorial apparatus."--BOOK JACKET.
פרטי הספר
- שנה
- 2005
- שפה
- English
- סדרה
- Fontes historiae Africanae -- new ser. 7
- הוצאה
- Oxford University Press for The British Academy
- מהדורות
- 2
- עמודים
- 566
- ISBN
- 9780197263082
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