The Image of Africa: British Ideas and Action, 1780-1850, Volume 1

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Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1973 - History - 526 pages

In this encyclopedic work of intellectual history, Philip D. Curtain sought to discover the British image of Africa for the years 1780 1850.

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Contents

The Known and the Unknown
3
The Africans Place in Nature
28
The Promise and the Terror of a Tropical Environment
58
New Jerusalems
88
PART II
121
The Lessons of Experience
123
A Pattern of Discovery
140
The Problem of Survival
177
Towns and Elephants
198
Its Physical Causes
227
Its Moral Causes
244
Techniques for Culture Change
259
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Philip D. Curtin, author of The Atlantic Slave Trade and Two Jamaicas, is Emeritus Professor of History and former Chairman of the African Studies program at the University of Wisconsin.

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