The Image of Africa: British Ideas and Action, 1780-1850, Volume 1In this encyclopedic work of intellectual history, Philip D. Curtain sought to discover the British image of Africa for the years 1780 1850. " |
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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