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Author : Alphonse-Jules Wauters
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Download or read book Le Congo illustré written by Alphonse-Jules Wauters and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christraud M. Geary
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780856675522
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (755 download)
Download or read book In and Out of Focus written by Christraud M. Geary and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05-02 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book accompanies an exhibition at the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, on the role of photography in Central Africa. This is the first book to link two related themes: the role of photographic images in constructing and circulating fantasies, ideas, and sentiments in Europe and the US relating to the peoples of Central Africa; and the role of photography in enabling Africans to project images of themselves by becoming familiar with photographic technology. Broad in thematic and temporal scope, the book focuses on several time periods, especially on the years before and between the two world wars. This is also the first publication devoted to the important holdings of the Eliot Elisofen Photographic Archives, a department of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution and a unique repository with more than 200,000 historical and contemporary images from all over Africa. This book raises important issues associated with photographic practice in Africa, the distribution of images, the circulation of ideas in Europe and the US, and African responses to photography through several poignant case studies. This book also advances the scholarly discourse on colonial/anthropological photography, and contributes to a better understanding of African responses to photography.
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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book Le Congo illustré written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781021804518
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Le Congo illustré; v. 1 1892 written by Anonymous and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plongez dans l'univers fascinant du Congo au début du 20e siècle, à travers ce livre richement illustré. Découvrez les paysages, les habitants, la faune et la flore de cette région du monde grâce aux photographies et aux illustrations en noir et blanc. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Alphonse-Jules Wauters
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396667527
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Le Congo Illustré, 1892, Vol. 1 written by Alphonse-Jules Wauters and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-07 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Le Congo Illustré, 1892, Vol. 1: Voyages Et Travaux des Belges dans l'État Indépendant du Congo Le régime du novice est sévère. Il ne peut dormir dans une case; il doit se nourrir exclusivement de végétaux. On lui enseigne une langue de convention, qui ne paraît se composer que de quelques mots. Au bout d'une année, le nganga fait un triage parmi ses élèves, ne conservant que les meilleurs. Ceux-ci, lorsqu'ils exerceront à leur tour les fonctions de sorcier, lui payeront une rente. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : [Anonymus AC08981396]
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Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Le Congo illustré written by [Anonymus AC08981396] and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Martin
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Total Pages : 1654 pages
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Download or read book The Statesman's Year-book written by Frederick Martin and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Vansina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429941390
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Tio Kingdom of The Middle Congo written by Jan Vansina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1973, this book reconstructs the political and economic organization and the social life of the Tio kingdom at the end of the 19th century by means of a critical synthesis of documentary and ethnographic data. Based on a detailed study of rich docuemntary sources and fieldwork, it analyses the persistent features of Tio social organization and political relations as well as the extensive economic changes associated with the development and later decline of caravan trading at Stanley Pool. It is fully illustrated with maps, tables and diagrams. This book shows the importance for both anthropoligical theory and historical interpreation of obtaining comprehensive data on the state of a particular society at a given time.
Author : Giacomo Macola
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821445553
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Gun in Central Africa written by Giacomo Macola and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did some central African peoples embrace gun technology in the nineteenth century, and others turn their backs on it? In answering this question, The Gun in Central Africa offers a thorough reassessment of the history of firearms in central Africa. Marrying the insights of Africanist historiography with those of consumption and science and technology studies, Giacomo Macola approaches the subject from a culturally sensitive perspective that encompasses both the practical and the symbolic attributes of firearms. Informed by the view that the power of objects extends beyond their immediate service functions, The Gun in Central Africa presents Africans as agents of technological re-innovation who understood guns in terms of their changing social structures and political interests. By placing firearms at the heart of the analysis, this volume casts new light on processes of state formation and military revolution in the era of the long-distance trade, the workings of central African gender identities and honor cultures, and the politics of the colonial encounter.
Author : Matthew G. Stanard
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803239882
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Selling the Congo written by Matthew G. Stanard and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belgium was a small, neutral country without a colonial tradition when King Leopold II ceded the Congo, his personal property, to the state in 1908. For the next half century Belgium not only ruled an African empire but also, through widespread, enduring, and eagerly embraced propaganda, produced an imperialist-minded citizenry. Selling the Congo is a study of European pro-empire propaganda in Belgium, with particular emphasis on the period 1908–60. Matthew G. Stanard questions the nature of Belgian imperialism in the Congo and considers the Belgian case in light of literature on the French, British, and other European overseas empires. Comparing Belgium to other imperial powers, the book finds that pro-empire propaganda was a basic part of European overseas expansion and administration during the modern period. Arguing against the long-held belief that Belgians were merely “reluctant imperialists,” Stanard demonstrates that in fact many Belgians readily embraced imperialistic propaganda. Selling the Congo contributes to our understanding of the effectiveness of twentieth-century propaganda by revealing its successes and failures in the Belgian case. Many readers familiar with more-popular histories of Belgian imperialism will find in this book a deeper examination of European involvement in central Africa during the colonial era.
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Total Pages : 1420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Statesman's Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Scott-Keltie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230270344
Total Pages : 1471 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Statesman's Year-Book written by J. Scott-Keltie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 1471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : Anonymous
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ISBN 13 : 9781372587580
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (875 download)
Download or read book FRE-CONGO ILLUSTRE V 3 1894 written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Burroughs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351804324
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book African Testimony in the Movement for Congo Reform written by Robert Burroughs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humanitarian movement against Leopold’s violent colonisation of the Congo emerged out of Europe, but it depended at every turn on African input. Individuals and groups from throughout the upper Congo River basin undertook journeys of daring and self-sacrifice to provide evidence of atrocities for the colonial authorities, missionaries, and international investigators. Combining archive research with attention to recent debates on the relation between imperialism and humanitarianism, on trauma, witnessing and postcolonial studies, and on the recovery of colonial archives, this book examines the conditions in which colonised peoples were able to speak about their subjection, and those in which attempts at testimony were thwarted. Robert Burroughs makes a major intervention by identifying African agency and input as a key factor in the Congo atrocities debate. This is an important and unique book in African history, imperial and colonial history, and humanitarian history.
Author : Gérard Jean-Aubry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000040488
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Sea Dreamer written by Gérard Jean-Aubry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken has written: ‘There was something almost suggesting the vastness of a natural phenomenon. He transcended all the rules. There have been perhaps, greater novelists, but I believe that he was incomparably the greatest artist whoever wrote a novel.’ Originally published in 1957, the year of the centenary of Conrad’s birth, and although he was firmly established among the world’s great literary figures, little was known about him generally, beyond the fact that he was himself once a sailor, and that the language he handled with such mastery was not the one to which he was born. This was described as the definitive biography, written by one of Conrad’s closest friends, to whom the novelist willed his personal papers. It took many years to prepare and the author travelled extensively in the lands that Conrad knew and wrote about. He writes with clarity, compassion and understanding of Conrad’s childhood in Russia (where the father was exiled for Polish nationalist activities); of how the youth of fifteen, who had never seen the sea before, became a sailor; of how at twenty-nine he became a British subject and master of his own ship; of how in 1894 he became a novelist almost by accident, rose rapidly to literary fame, found new friends and established himself in literary history. This is a record of the strangest and most enigmatic of lives, fascinating and authoritative at the same time.
Author : Alisa LaGamma
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588395758
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Kongo: Power and Majesty written by Alisa LaGamma and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of the effects of turbulent history on one of Africa’s most storied kingdoms, Kongo: Power and Majesty presents over 170 works of art from the Kingdom of Kongo (an area that includes present-day Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola). The book covers 400 years of Kongolese culture, from the fifteenth century, when Portuguese, Dutch, and Italian merchants and missionaries brought Christianity to the region, to the nineteenth, when engagement with Europe had turned to colonial incursion and the kingdom dissolved under the pressures of displacement, civil war, and the devastation of the slave trade. The works of art—which range from depictions of European iconography rendered in powerful, indigenous forms to fearsome minkondi, or power figures—serve as an assertion of enduring majesty in the face of upheaval, and richly illustrate the book’s powerful thesis.
Author : Paul Van Pul
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031410653
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Hydrography and Navigation on the Congo River written by Paul Van Pul and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time without GPS and echosounder, European engineers and black labourers worked for decades to get a better understanding of the nautical intricacies of the Congo River. This is the first comprehensive story, in text and custom-made maps, of the, in flow, second largest river in the world. We follow the earliest explorers mapping the river, the expeditions to find an alternative access to the ocean and the first land and hydraulic surveys to improve navigation. The constant movement of shallows and islands keeps the guardians of the river constantly on their toes. Over the years, better technologies on all fronts improved safety, data collection and fairway maintenance. In conclusion, the author describes a proposal to develop a 21st container port that would rival any port facilities on the African west coast.
