Author: T.E. Bowdich
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136254196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
First Published in 1966. This volume recounts an exploratory mission into the interior of Africa from travelling on the River Gaboon and then on fifty miles to Naango and the area, in order to gather geographical information as well as that of trade, life and customs.
Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee (1819)
Author: T.E. Bowdich
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136254196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
First Published in 1966. This volume recounts an exploratory mission into the interior of Africa from travelling on the River Gaboon and then on fifty miles to Naango and the area, in order to gather geographical information as well as that of trade, life and customs.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136254196
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
First Published in 1966. This volume recounts an exploratory mission into the interior of Africa from travelling on the River Gaboon and then on fifty miles to Naango and the area, in order to gather geographical information as well as that of trade, life and customs.
Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a Statistical Account of that Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of Other Parts of the Interior of Africa
Author: Thomas Edward Bowdich
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562
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Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee
Author: Thomas Edward Bowdich
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a Descriptive Account of that Kingdom
Author: T. Edward Bowdich
Publisher:
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Category : Ashanti
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Publisher:
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Category : Ashanti
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee
Author: Thomas Edward Bowdich
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith
Author: Sydney Smith
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Science, Africa and Europe
Author: Martin Lengwiler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351232657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Historically, scientists and experts have played a prominent role in shaping the relationship between Europe and Africa. Starting with travel writers and missionary intellectuals in the 17th century, European savants have engaged in the study of nature and society in Africa. Knowledge about realms of the world like Africa provided a foil against which Europeans came to view themselves as members of enlightened and modern civilisations. Science and technology also offered crucial tools with which to administer, represent and legitimate power relations in a new global world but the knowledge drawn from contacts with people in far-off places provided Europeans with information and ideas that contributed in everyday ways to the scientific revolution and that provided explorers with the intellectual and social capital needed to develop science into modern disciplines at home in the metropole. This book poses questions about the changing role of European science and expert knowledge from early colonial times to post-colonial times. How did science shape understanding of Africa in Europe and how was scientific knowledge shaped, adapted and redefined in African contexts?
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351232657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Historically, scientists and experts have played a prominent role in shaping the relationship between Europe and Africa. Starting with travel writers and missionary intellectuals in the 17th century, European savants have engaged in the study of nature and society in Africa. Knowledge about realms of the world like Africa provided a foil against which Europeans came to view themselves as members of enlightened and modern civilisations. Science and technology also offered crucial tools with which to administer, represent and legitimate power relations in a new global world but the knowledge drawn from contacts with people in far-off places provided Europeans with information and ideas that contributed in everyday ways to the scientific revolution and that provided explorers with the intellectual and social capital needed to develop science into modern disciplines at home in the metropole. This book poses questions about the changing role of European science and expert knowledge from early colonial times to post-colonial times. How did science shape understanding of Africa in Europe and how was scientific knowledge shaped, adapted and redefined in African contexts?
Majestic River
Author: Charles W. J. Withers
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788855663
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
One of the greatest stories of world exploration ever told. By the late eighteenth century, the river Niger was a 2,000-year-old two-part geographical problem. Solving it would advance European knowledge of Africa, provide a route to commercial opportunity and help eradicate the evil of slavery. Mungo Park achieved lasting fame in 1796 by solving the first part of the Niger problem – which way did the river run? Park died in 1806, in circumstances which are still uncertain, in failing to solve the second – where did the Niger end? Numerous expeditions explored the river in the decades following Park's death, but not until 1830 was its final course revealed following in-the-field exploration. By then, however, the Niger problem had been solved by 'armchair geographers' who had never even visited Africa. Majestic River celebrates Mungo Park's achievements and illuminates his rich afterlife – how and why he was commemorated long after his death. It is also the thrilling story of the many expeditions that sought to determine the Niger's course and the facts of Park's disappearance, as well as a biography of the Niger itself as the river slowly took shape in the European imagination.
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788855663
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
One of the greatest stories of world exploration ever told. By the late eighteenth century, the river Niger was a 2,000-year-old two-part geographical problem. Solving it would advance European knowledge of Africa, provide a route to commercial opportunity and help eradicate the evil of slavery. Mungo Park achieved lasting fame in 1796 by solving the first part of the Niger problem – which way did the river run? Park died in 1806, in circumstances which are still uncertain, in failing to solve the second – where did the Niger end? Numerous expeditions explored the river in the decades following Park's death, but not until 1830 was its final course revealed following in-the-field exploration. By then, however, the Niger problem had been solved by 'armchair geographers' who had never even visited Africa. Majestic River celebrates Mungo Park's achievements and illuminates his rich afterlife – how and why he was commemorated long after his death. It is also the thrilling story of the many expeditions that sought to determine the Niger's course and the facts of Park's disappearance, as well as a biography of the Niger itself as the river slowly took shape in the European imagination.
The Problem of the Fetish
Author: William Pietz
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226821803
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
A groundbreaking account of the origins and history of the idea of fetishism. In recent decades, William Pietz’s innovative history of the idea of the fetish has become a cult classic. Gathered here, for the first time, is his complete series of essays on fetishism, supplemented by three texts on Marx, blood sacrifice, and the money value of human life. Tracing the idea of the fetish from its origins in the Portuguese colonization of West Africa to its place in Enlightenment thought and beyond, Pietz reveals the violent emergence of a foundational concept for modern theories of value, belief, desire, and difference. This book cements Pietz’s legacy of engaging questions about material culture, object agency, merchant capitalism, and spiritual power, and introduces a powerful theorist to a new generation of thinkers.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226821803
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
A groundbreaking account of the origins and history of the idea of fetishism. In recent decades, William Pietz’s innovative history of the idea of the fetish has become a cult classic. Gathered here, for the first time, is his complete series of essays on fetishism, supplemented by three texts on Marx, blood sacrifice, and the money value of human life. Tracing the idea of the fetish from its origins in the Portuguese colonization of West Africa to its place in Enlightenment thought and beyond, Pietz reveals the violent emergence of a foundational concept for modern theories of value, belief, desire, and difference. This book cements Pietz’s legacy of engaging questions about material culture, object agency, merchant capitalism, and spiritual power, and introduces a powerful theorist to a new generation of thinkers.
A Sailing Directory for the Ethiopic Or South Atlantic Ocean, Including the Coasts of South America and Africa
Author: Alexander G. Findlay
Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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