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Author | : David Lambert |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2013-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022607823X |
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In Mastering the Niger, David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of A New Map of Africa in 1841 to show that Atlantic slavery—as a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political struggle—was entangled with the production, circulation, and reception of geographical knowledge. The British empire banned the slave trade in 1807 and abolished slavery itself in 1833, creating a need for a new British imperial economy. Without ever setting foot on the continent, MacQueen took on the task of solving the “Niger problem,” that is, to successfully map the course of the river and its tributaries, and thus breathe life into his scheme for the exploration, colonization, and commercial exploitation of West Africa. Lambert illustrates how MacQueen’s geographical research began, four decades before the publication of the New Map, when he was managing a sugar estate on the West Indian colony of Grenada. There MacQueen encountered slaves with firsthand knowledge of West Africa, whose accounts would form the basis of his geographical claims. Lambert examines the inspirations and foundations for MacQueen’s geographical theory as well as its reception, arguing that Atlantic slavery and ideas for alternatives to it helped produce geographical knowledge, while geographical discourse informed the struggle over slavery.
Author | : James MacQueen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1821 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
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James MacQueen (1778-1870) was a British geographer fascinated by the problem of the River Niger. He set out to try to establish (on the basis of accounts by explorers, traders and missionaries), that one and the same river flowed continuously through Africa and into the Atlantic Ocean, thus challenging long-established beliefs that African rivers either disappeared into the sand or terminated in lakes. MacQueen documents his findings in this pioneering work, first published in 1821. Drawing on evidence from a range of authorities, he argues that previous misconceptions about the Niger had left Africa isolated from the civilised world, and shows how his discovery could open up trading opportunities between Africa and other countries, suggesting that contact with Europeans would lead to the eventual abolishment of the slave trade in the interior. This important study remains relevant to scholars of both geography and African history today.
Author | : Carol Beckwith |
Publisher | : Harry N. Abrams |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1993-09-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780810981256 |
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A photographic celebration of the nomadic Wodaabe of Niger with a narrative that follows a herdsman and his family and kinsmen through one year's journey in parched, sub-Saharan Africa. This volume documents their life, culture, traditions and celebrations.
Author | : Randall Kennedy |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2008-12-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0307538915 |
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Author | : Jules Verne |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Adventure stories |
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Author | : Edlyne Eze Anugwom |
Publisher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-11-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1498577997 |
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This book analyzes the influence of memory on social conflict as well as the role of ethnicity in state formation and governance in Nigeria. It examines the nexus between the Nigerian civil war and the conflict in the oil rich Niger Delta against the background of memory and ethnicization of the state.
Author | : Finn Fuglestad |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1980 |
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Author | : Jean Dethier |
Publisher | : 5Continents |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9788874390519 |
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Photographic survey of the adobe mosques of the inner Niger delta.
Author | : Festus Emiri |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9788422047 |
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This book, which has twenty chapters, Is a collection of essays in honour of Honourable Justice (Mrs) Kate Abiri, Chief Judge of Bayelsa State of Nigeria who has contributed immensely To The rule of law and advancement in the Niger Delta area in particular where the petroleum industry has wrought great devastation in various forms. The law And The regulatory framework governing oil and gas operations in Nigeria are subjected to critical examination, alongside legal challenges in the path of addressing attendant environmental degradation, compensation, human rights, communities and protection of the environment. This is the most comprehensive book on this subject to date.
Author | : Nigeria |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Economic development |
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