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Image of Africa

British Ideas and Action, 1780-1850

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  • © 1964

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Authors:
  1. Philip D. Curtin
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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The “New World” of Eighteenth-Century Africa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. West Africa: The Known and The Unknown

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      Pages 3-27

    3. The Africans’ “Place in Nature”

      • Philip D. Curtin
      Pages 28-57

    4. The Promise and The Terror of a Tropical Environment

      • Philip D. Curtin
      Pages 58-87

    5. New Jerusalems

      • Philip D. Curtin
      Pages 88-119

  3. The Age of Exploration and Disappointment 1795–1830

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Sierra Leone: The Lessons of Experience

      • Philip D. Curtin
      Pages 123-139

    3. West Africa in the New Century: a Pattern of Discovery

      • Philip D. Curtin
      Pages 140-176

    4. The Problem of Survival

      • Philip D. Curtin
      Pages 177-197

    5. Towns and Elephants

      • Philip D. Curtin
      Pages 198-226

    6. Barbarism: Its Physical Causes

      • Philip D. Curtin
      Pages 227-243

    7. Barbarism: Its Moral Causes

      • Philip D. Curtin
      Pages 244-258

    8. Techniques for Culture Change

      • Philip D. Curtin
      Pages 259-286

  4. The Age of Humanitarianism 1830–1852

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 287-287
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    2. The Era of the Niger Expedition

      • Philip D. Curtin
      Pages 289-317

    3. Reporting West Africa: Sources and Uses of Information

      • Philip D. Curtin
      Pages 318-342

    4. Tropical Medicine and the Victory of Empiricism

      • Philip D. Curtin
      Pages 343-362

    5. The Racists and their Opponents

      • Philip D. Curtin
      Pages 363-387

    6. Language, Culture, and History

      • Philip D. Curtin
      Pages 388-413
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