Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and Their Hinterland, C.1600 C.1960 by Ralph A. Austen
Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and Their Hinterland, C.1600 C.1960
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Ralph A. Austen
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Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: The Duala and Their Hinterland, C.1600 C.1960

Ralph A. Austen with Christopher Clapham, David Anderson, Carolyn Brown, Patrick Manning, Jonathan Derrick, Leonardo Alfonso Villalón, David Robinson, Michael Gomez

268 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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This book is about the Duala middlemen, who functioned as intermediaries between Europeans and their own hinterland for over three hundred years. Originally traders in ivory, slaves and palm products, they then became colonial-era cocoa planters, ...

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