Author: Thomas Edward Bowdich
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
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 (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 Descriptive Account of that Kingdom
Author: T. Edward Bowdich
Publisher:
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Category : Ashanti
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ashanti
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee
Author: Thomas Edward Bowdich
Publisher:
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Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
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
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Author:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
A Sailing Directory for the Ethiopic Or South Atlantic Ocean, Including the Coasts of South America and Africa
Author: Alexander G. Findlay
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 19. Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America (1800-1914)
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004500383
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 629
Book Description
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History19 (CMR 19), covering Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean in the period 1800-1914, is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and the main body of detailed entries. These treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. They provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous new and leading scholars, CMR 19, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section Editors: Ines Aščerić-Todd, Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Jaco Beyers, Emanuele Colombo, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Vincenzo Lavenia, Arely Medina, Diego Melo Carrasco, Alain Messaoudi, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Charles Ramsey, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Cornelia Soldat, Charles Tieszen, Carsten Walbiner, Catherina Wenzel
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004500383
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 629
Book Description
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History19 (CMR 19), covering Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean in the period 1800-1914, is a further volume in a general history of relations between the two faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. It comprises a series of introductory essays and the main body of detailed entries. These treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have been recorded. They provide biographical details of the authors, descriptions and assessments of the works themselves, and complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and studies. The result of collaboration between numerous new and leading scholars, CMR 19, along with the other volumes in this series, is intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim relations. Section Editors: Ines Aščerić-Todd, Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabé Pons, Jaco Beyers, Emanuele Colombo, Lejla Demiri, Martha Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanisław Grodź, Alan Guenther, Vincenzo Lavenia, Arely Medina, Diego Melo Carrasco, Alain Messaoudi, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Charles Ramsey, Peter Riddell, Umar Ryad, Cornelia Soldat, Charles Tieszen, Carsten Walbiner, Catherina Wenzel