Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. ABBREVATIONS xii
5. PREFACE BY THE EDITORS xiii
6. EDITORIAL NOTE xvi
7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xviii
8. PART I. The Setting, Public and Private
9. 1. Max Esser: His Life and Labours 3
10. PART II. Esser’s Travels
11. 2 The Outward Voyage 31
12. 3 Sao Thomé and Principe 35
13. 4 Cameroon – the Historical Background 43
14. 5 Land and People in Cameroon 49
15. 6 In Cameroon 57
16. 7 The Expedition to Bali 65
17. 8 Departure from Cameroon 113
18. 9 Angola, and the Cunene Expedition 117
19. 10 A Retrospective View 125
20. PART III. Colonial Needs and their Consequences: the Viewpoints of some Contemporary Observers
21. 11 The ‘Bali Road’ and Baliburg in the Autumn of 1892: a Report on a Visit: Max von Stetten 133
22. 12 A Complication: the Entry of the Gesellschaft Nordwest Kamerun, 1901–1903: Esser’s Correspondence 141
23. 13 A Parliamentary Visitation: Johannes Semler’s Togo und Kamerun: Eindrücke und Momentaufnahmen von einem deutschen Abgeordneten, Leipzig, 1905 147
24. 14 A Soldier’s View of the Tasks of the Bamenda Military Station in 1908: Hptm. Menzel 153
25. 15 Labour Supply: a Shift of Modalities, 1913: Hptm. Adametz 159
26. APPENDIX I. The ‘Esser Affair’ 165
27. APPENDIX II. The ‘Fetishes’ and the Esser Collection at the Linden Museum 171
28. Map 1 185
29. Map 2 187
30. Bibliography 189
31. Index 201