Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/3YgM8D The African-British Long Eighteenth Century An Analysis of African-British Treaties, Colonial Economics, and Anthropological Discourse By: Tcho Mbaimba Caulker Publisher: Lexington Books Print ISBN: 9780739127438, 0739127438 eText ISBN: 9780739134870, 0739134876 Pages: 216 Format: PDF Available from $ 55.20 USD SKU 9780739134870R120 Tracing the development of British colonial administration in West Africa over the course of the long eighteenth century, Caulker illuminates the solidification of the administration as it goes through a learning process of power. This book analyzes the documents and treaties that the indigenous peoples of eighteen-century Sierra Leone made with their future British colonizers, and compares them with the writings of Adam Smith to uncover a colonial philosophy linking European economic success with the process of civilizing Africa through moral education. A discussion of other archival materials demonstrates the ways that an emerging anthropological science and pseudo-scientific methodology contributed to colonial ventures and exploration. The book concludes with an analysis of the postcolonial novel The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar, demonstrating that the study of this long eighteenth-century archive has as much to do with the present postcolonial era as it does with the period of African colonization.
