Peter Thonning and Denmark's Commission: A Study in Nineteenth Century African Colonial Geography (The Atlantic World - Europe, Africa and the Americas 1500-1830 series)series)

xvi, 744pp, with a scattering of maps and black and white illustrations in text.   In printed card covers, illustrated.  8vo.  Gently bumped at spine ends.  Minor bump affecting the extreme upper corner of a dozen or so pages.  Some annotations on rear free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. A monumental work on the colonial history of Danish Guinea - what is now largely Ghana - covering topics such as The Guinea Commission and Isert's Colonial Expediation of 1788; Denmark's Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade; Peter Thonning's African Sojourn; Plantation Experiments; Conflicting Colonial Schemes in the early 19th Century and Denmark's Withdrawal from the Guinea Coast of Africa.