The African-British long eighteenth century : an analysis of African-British treaties, colonial economics, and anthropological discourse / [Tcho Mbaimba Caulker].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caulker, Tcho Mbaimba, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies.

Administration.

History.

Relations.

Africa, West--Relations--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Africa, West.

Great Britain--Relations--Africa, West--History--18th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--Africa--Administration--History--18th century.

Africa, West--In literature.

West Africa.

Africa.

Physical Description:

xxx, 185 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Other Title:

African-British long 18th century

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2009]

Contents:

List of figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: the African-British long eighteenth century

Long eighteenth-century fictive literature and filling vacuum of Africa

British-African treaty making and the construction of a British colonial state in Sierra Leone

Reading the British Sierra Leone Company: The Sierra Leone Company and its ties to emergent colonial, economic, and moral philosophy of the long eighteenth century

Natural science, exploration, and the colonial project in West Africa

The Last harmattan of Alusine Dunbar, and bringing the long eighteenth-century archival past into the postcolonial present

Epilogue: the African-British long eighteenth century and imagination

Appendix of treaties

Bibliography

Index

About the author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-179) and index.

ISBN:

9780739127438

0739127438

9780739134870

0739134876

OCLC:

276406144