Cameroon's tycoon : Max Esser's expedition and its consequences

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Preface by the Editors

Editorial Note

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PART I THE SETTING, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE

1. Max Esser: His Life and Labours

by Ute Roschenthaler

Key to Family Photographs

PART II ESSER'S TRAVELS

2. The Outward Voyage

3. Sao Thome and Principe

4. Cameroon

the Historical Background

5. Land and People in Cameroon

6. In Cameroon

7. The Expedition to Bali

8. Departure from Cameroon

9. Angola, and the Cunene Expedition

10. A Retrospective View

PART III COLONIAL NEEDS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES: THE VIEWPOINTS OF SOME CONTEMPORARY OBSERVERS

11. The 'Bali Road' and Baliburg in the Autumn of 1892: a Report on a Visit: Max von Stetten

12. A Complication: the Entry of the Gesellschaft Nordwest

Kamerun, 1901-1903: Esser's Correspondence

13. A Parliamentary Visitation: Johannes Semler's Togo und Kamerun: Eindriicke und Momentaryfuahmen vou einem dentschen Abgeordneten, Leipzig, 1905

14. A Soldier's View of the Tasks of the Bamenda Military Station 1908: Hptm. Menzel

15. Labour Supply: a Shift of Modalities, 1913: Hptm. Adametz

Appendix I The 'Esser Affair'

Appendix II The 'Fetishes' and the Esser Collection at the Linden Museum, by Ute Roschenthaler

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