Isbn: 9789004228689 - peter thonning and denmark's guinea commission: a study in nineteenth-century african colonial geography (atlantic world, band 24) (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: N/A. 1st Edition. xvi, 744pp, with a scattering of maps and black and white illustrations in text. In printed card covers, illustrated. 8vo. Gently bumped at spine ends. Minor bump affecting the extreme upper corner of a dozen or so pages. Some annotations on rear free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A monumental work on the colonial history of Danish Guinea - what is now largely Ghana - covering topics such as The Guinea Commission and Isert's Colonial Expediation of 1788; Denmark's Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade; Peter Thonning's African Sojourn; Plantation Experiments; Conflicting Colonial Schemes in the early 19th Century and Denmark's Withdrawal from the Guinea Coast of Africa. …

Zustand: New. Klappentext.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Several years before Denmark legislated against the Atlantic slave trade in 1792, the government, anticipating the decline of production in the Danish West Indies as a consequence, embarked on a policy of agricultural colonization in West Africa. Peter Thonning, a young natural historian of the highly economic and geographical Linnaean school, spent three formative years in Africa and then for decades administered Denmark's African colonial undertakings. The international movement of colonial news and ideas can very usefully be traced in his unpublished writings, especially among the Guinea Commission's extraordinarily wide-ranging records. These rich archives and contemporary published opinion in this cosmopolitan Scandinavian society open fresh perspectives on the broader history and geography of European colonialism.…