Peter Thonning and Denmark's Guinea Commission - A Study in Nineteenth-Century African Colonial Geography

The rich archival record of Denmark's nineteenth-century African colonial undertakings, and particularly the work of the natural historian and colonial administrator Peter Thonning of the Guinea Commission, opens fresh perspectives on the broader history and geography of European colonialism.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Hopkins
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.11.2012
• EAN: 9789004228689
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22868-9
• No. of pages: 760
• Weight: 1296 g
• Series: Atlantic World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous