The Image of Africa: British Ideas and Action, 1780–1850

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
West Africa: The Known and The Unknown....Pages 3-27
The Africans’ “Place in Nature”....Pages 28-57
The Promise and The Terror of a Tropical Environment....Pages 58-87
New Jerusalems....Pages 88-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-121
Sierra Leone: The Lessons of Experience....Pages 123-139
West Africa in the New Century: a Pattern of Discovery....Pages 140-176
The Problem of Survival....Pages 177-197
Towns and Elephants....Pages 198-226
Barbarism: Its Physical Causes....Pages 227-243
Barbarism: Its Moral Causes....Pages 244-258
Techniques for Culture Change....Pages 259-286
Front Matter....Pages 287-287
The Era of the Niger Expedition....Pages 289-317
Reporting West Africa: Sources and Uses of Information....Pages 318-342
Tropical Medicine and the Victory of Empiricism....Pages 343-362
The Racists and their Opponents....Pages 363-387
Language, Culture, and History....Pages 388-413
Culture Contact and Conversion....Pages 414-431
West Africa in the South Atlantic Economy....Pages 432-456
The Theory and Practice of Informal Empire....Pages 457-478
Postscript....Pages 479-480
Back Matter....Pages 483-526