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In Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa, Catherine Higgs traces the early-twentieth-century journey of the Englishman Joseph Burtt to the Portuguese colony of Sao Tome and Principe—the chocolate islands—through Angola and Mozambique, and finally to British Southern Africa. Burtt had been hired by the chocolate firm Cadbury Brothers Limited to determine if the cocoa it was buying from the islands had been harvested by slave laborers forcibly recruited from Angola, an allegation that became one of the grand scandals of the early colonial era. Burtt spent six months on Sao Tome and Principe and a year in Angola. His five-month march across Angola in 1906 took him from innocence and credulity to outrage and activism and ultimately helped change labor recruiting practices in colonial Africa. This beautifully written and engaging travel narrative draws on collections in Portugal, the United Kingdom, and Africa to explore British and Portuguese attitudes toward work, slavery, race, and imperialism. In a story still familiar a century after Burtt’s sojourn, Chocolate Islands reveals the idealism, naivety, and racism that shaped attitudes toward Africa, even among those who sought to improve the conditions of its workers.

Полный вариант заголовка: «An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean : with an orig. grammar a. vocabulary of their language : in 2 vol. Vol. 2».

Полный вариант заголовка: «An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean : with an orig. grammar a. vocabulary of their language : in 2 vol. Vol. 1».

Полный вариант заголовка: «The history of the discovery and conquest of the Canary Islands : translated from a Spanish manuscript, lately found in the island of Palma : with an enquiry into the origin of the ancient inhabitants : to which is added, a dsescription of the Canary Islands, including the modern history of the inhabitants, and an account of their manners, customs, trade, & c. / by George Glas».

Полный вариант заголовка: «Memoirs on the Ionian islands : considered in a commercial, political, and military point of view : in which their advantages of position are described, as well as their relations with the Greek continent : including the life and character of Ali Pacha, the present ruler of Greece : together with a comparative display of the ancient and modern geography of the Epirus, Thessaly, Morea, part of Macedonia, &c. / by Gen. Guillaume de Vaudoncourt ; translated from the original inedited MS. by William Walton».