Peter Thonning and Denmark's Guinea Commission
A Study in Nineteenth-Century African Colonial Geography
Biographical note
Daniel Hopkins, Ph.D. (1987) in Geography, Louisiana State University, is an Associate Professor at the University of Missouri—Kansas City. He specializes in archival studies of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century historical geography of Denmark’s tropical colonies.
Readership
Scholars, students, and all others interested in the history and geography of Africa and the Atlantic world, historical geography in general, Enlightenment-era science, the history of cartography, and colonial writing.
Table of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: on the geography of colonialism
EARLY COLONIAL EXPERIMENTS
1. The Guinea Commission commences its investigation: Isert’s colonial expedition of 1788
2. Denmark’s abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, 1792: the African colonial alternative
3. Africa in the Atlantic world: Guinea plantations on the West Indian model
SCIENCE AND COLONIALISM: PETER THONNING'S EXPEDITION
4. Peter Thonning’s African sojourn and the formation of his colonial views
5. Reports and reverberations: responses to Thonning’s early African writing
6. The Atlantic triangle stood on its head: African undertakings after the cessation of the Danish slave trade in 1803
COLONIAL DEVELOPMENTS DURING THE NAPOLEONIC WARS AND THE ENSUING DEPRESSION
7. “For colonization, a more desirable country cannot be found”: plantation experiments during the war years
8. An eye to the future: colonial ambitions in a time of retrenchment
RENEWED INTEREST IN AFRICAN COLONIALISM IN COPENHAGEN
9. Fresh colonial momentum in the early 1820s
10. Conflicting colonial schemes in the late 1820s
11. The literary impulse: a young colonial officer's essays on Denmark's African future
CONFLICTING VIEWS OF THE COLONIAL WORLD: THE GUINEA COMMISSION AND THE CLOSING OF AN ERA
12. Plumbing the archives: the Commission frames its debate
13. The Guinea Commission in a changed colonial climate
14. The tide again turns: new African colonial impetus
15. The colonial dénouement, Denmark’s withdrawal from Africa, and the colonial upshot
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: on the geography of colonialism
EARLY COLONIAL EXPERIMENTS
1. The Guinea Commission commences its investigation: Isert’s colonial expedition of 1788
2. Denmark’s abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, 1792: the African colonial alternative
3. Africa in the Atlantic world: Guinea plantations on the West Indian model
SCIENCE AND COLONIALISM: PETER THONNING'S EXPEDITION
4. Peter Thonning’s African sojourn and the formation of his colonial views
5. Reports and reverberations: responses to Thonning’s early African writing
6. The Atlantic triangle stood on its head: African undertakings after the cessation of the Danish slave trade in 1803
COLONIAL DEVELOPMENTS DURING THE NAPOLEONIC WARS AND THE ENSUING DEPRESSION
7. “For colonization, a more desirable country cannot be found”: plantation experiments during the war years
8. An eye to the future: colonial ambitions in a time of retrenchment
RENEWED INTEREST IN AFRICAN COLONIALISM IN COPENHAGEN
9. Fresh colonial momentum in the early 1820s
10. Conflicting colonial schemes in the late 1820s
11. The literary impulse: a young colonial officer's essays on Denmark's African future
CONFLICTING VIEWS OF THE COLONIAL WORLD: THE GUINEA COMMISSION AND THE CLOSING OF AN ERA
12. Plumbing the archives: the Commission frames its debate
13. The Guinea Commission in a changed colonial climate
14. The tide again turns: new African colonial impetus
15. The colonial dénouement, Denmark’s withdrawal from Africa, and the colonial upshot
Bibliography
Index
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