The Practical Imperialist: Letters from a Danish Planter in German East Africa 1888-1906 - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 900414742X ISBN 13 : 9789004147423

Editeur : Brill, 2006

Synopsis

This book provides a rare opportunity to follow the daily life on and around plantations and towns in the first years of the German colonial presence in East Africa, as seen through the eyes of a Danish master farmer working for the German East Africa Company. There are few memoirs and personal letters from these years, and existent letters are primarily by explorers, colonial officials, missionaries or the occasional settler. Lautherborn's material provides one of the very few entry points into the daily business of colonial expansion and consolidation in the early years of German East Africa as seen through the eyes of a practical man trying to do a job in a complex and changing world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Marianne Rostgaard, Ph.D. (1991) is an Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. She has mainly published on Danish 19th and 20th century social and cultural history.
Jane L. Parpart is Professor of International Development Studies, History and Gender Studies at Dalhousie University and visiting professor in politics at Stellenbosch.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 900414742X
• ISBN 13: 9789004147423
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Éditeur: Parpart Jane, Rostgaard Marianne
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible