Cameroon's tycoon : Max Esser's expedition and its consequences / edited by E. M. Chilver and Ute Röschenthaler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Esser, Max.

Contributor:

Chilver, E. M., editor.

Röschenthaler, Ute, editor.

Series:

Cameroon studies ; Volume 3.

Cameroon studies ; Volume 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Esser, Max.

Plantations--Cameroon--History.

Plantations.

Bali (African people).

Germans--Cameroon--History.

Germans.

Cameroon--History.

Cameroon.

Cameroon--Economic conditions--To 1960.

Africa, West--Description and travel.

Africa, West.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2001.

Summary:

Max Esser was an adventurous young merchant banker, a Rhinelander, who became the first managing director of the largest German plantation company in Cameroon. This volume gives a vivid account of the antecedents and early stages as experienced and described by Esser. In 1896 he ventured, with the explorer Zintgraff, into the hinterland to seek the agreement of Zintgraff's old ally, the ruler of Bali, for the provision of laborers for his projected enterprise. The consequences, many optimistically unforeseen, are illustrated with the help of contemporary materials. Esser's account is preceded by a look at his and his family's connections, added to by an account of newspaper campaigns against him, and completed by an examination of his Cameroon collection, which he gave to the Linden Museum in Stuttgart.

Contents:

CAMEROON'S TYCOON; TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE BY THE EDITORS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; PART I. The Setting, Public and Private; CHAPTER 1. Max Esser: His Life and Labours; PART II. Esser's Travels; 2. The Outward Voyage; 3. Sao Thomé and Principe; 4. Cameroon - the Historical Background; 5. Land and People in Cameroon; 6. In Cameroon; 7. The Expedition to Bali; 8. Departure from Cameroon; 9. Angola, and the Cunene Expedition; 10. A Retrospective View; PART III. Colonial Needs and their Consequences: the Viewpoints of some Contemporary Observers

11. The 'Bali Road' and Baliburg in the Autumn of 1892: a Report on a Visit:Max von Stetten12. A Complication: the Entry of the Gesellschaft Nordwest Kamerun,1901-1903: Esser's Correspondence; 13. A Parliamentary Visitation:Johannes Semler's Togo und Kamerun: Eindrücke und Momentaufnahmen von einem deutschen Abgeordneten, Leipzig,1905; 14. A Soldier's View of the Tasks of the Bamenda Military Station in 1908:Hptm. Menzel; 15. Labour Supply: a Shift of Modalities,1913: Hptm. Adametz; APPENDIX I; APPENDIX II; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781571813107

1571813101

9781571819888

1571819886

9781782388760

1782388761

OCLC:

1100900353