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Congo 1964

Author : Jules Gerard-Libois
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400875420
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Congo 1964 written by Jules Gerard-Libois and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the sixth in an annual series of Congolese documents that have been compiled, but this is the first time that they are available in French with an English introduction. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Congo from Leopold to Kabila

Author : Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1780329407
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Congo from Leopold to Kabila written by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of the Congo have suffered from a particularly brutal colonial rule, American interference after independence, decades of robbery at the hands of the dictator Mobutu and periodic warfare which continues even now in the East of the country. But, as this insightful political history makes clear, the Congolese people have not taken these multiple oppressions lying down and have fought over many years to establish democratic institutions at home and free themselves from foreign exploitation; indeed these are two aspects of a single project. Professor Nzongola-Ntalaja is one of his country's leading intellectuals and his panoramic understanding of the personalities and events, as well as class, ethnic and other factors, make his book a lucid, radical and utterly unromanticized account of his countrymen's struggle. His people's defeat and the state's post-colonial crisis are seen as resulting from a post-independence collapse of the anti-colonial alliance between the masses and the national leadership . This book is essential reading for understanding what is happening in the Congo and the Great Lakes region under the rule of the late President Kabila, and now his son. It will also stand as a milestone in how to write the modern political history of Africa.

Missionary Spaces

Author : Thomas Coomans
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 946270144X
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Missionary Spaces written by Thomas Coomans and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘spatial turn’ of missionary places Situated at the crossroads of missionary history, imperial history and colonial architecture, this volume examines the architectural staging and spatial implications of the worldwide expansion of Christianity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. By focusing on specific architectural fragments, analysing the intersection of Christian edifices in colonial and traditional urban settings or unravelling the social understanding of missionary places, each chapter strives to understand the agency of missionary spaces. Bringing together scholars from different disciplines and fields, this book aims to centre those missionary spaces by approaching them not merely as décor around and within which the missionary encounter was acted, but by making them part and parcel of it. Through its approach, Missionary Spaces provides a new paradigm for scrutinising the ‘spatial turn’ for missionary histories and contributes to the increased attention across the humanities to space, place, and location since the late 1990s. Space does not occur as an historical given, but as a social construction to be analysed, while at the same time having explanatory value of its own. This book focuses on Africa and the Chinese Region with contributions on Burundi, China, Congo, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, and Taiwan.

Spies in the Congo

Author : Susan Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1787380653
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Spies in the Congo written by Susan Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spies in the Congo is the untold story of one of the most tightly-guarded secrets of the Second World War: America's desperate struggle to secure enough uranium to build its atomic bomb. The Shinkolobwe mine in the Belgian Congo was the most important deposit of uranium yet discovered anywhere on earth, vital to the success of the Manhattan Project. Given that Germany was also working on an atomic bomb, it was an urgent priority for the US to prevent uranium from the Congo being diverted to the enemy - a task entrusted to Washington's elite secret intelligence agents. Sent undercover to colonial Africa to track the ore and to hunt Nazi collaborators, their assignment was made even tougher by the complex political reality and by tensions with Belgian and British officials. A gripping spy-thriller, Spies in the Congo is the true story of unsung heroism, of the handful of good men - and one woman - in Africa who were determined to deny Hitler his bomb.

Désirée Congo

Author : Évelyne Trouillot
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813952131
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Désirée Congo written by Évelyne Trouillot and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2024-10-23 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest English translation of one of Haiti’s most powerful literary voices Désirée Congo is a riveting, powerful, and profoundly original novel set in the final years of the Haitian Revolution at the dawn of the nineteenth century. In this richly textured work, Trouillot—one of the leading voices of the francophone literary world—constructs an intricate narrative web from the varied experiences of freedmen and women, maroons, enslaved African people and their Creole children, as well as French planters and white smallholders in colonial Saint-Domingue at a historical moment of unthinkable upheaval. It is a moving, lyrical book whose strikingly realized characters enrich our understanding of the last confrontations between the Haitian revolutionaries and Napoleon’s imperial forces—a conflict that resulted in the success of the largest slave revolt in recorded history and the independence of the first Black state in the western hemisphere.

Andre Gide's Politics

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349625329
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book Andre Gide's Politics written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the peak of his career, after having established himself as an accomplished writer, astute moraliste, and the foremost spokesperson of his generation for personal freedom and self-realization, Gide became aware, first, that his particular brand of bourgeois individualism was becoming increasingly irrelevant in the contemporary world and, second, that social commitment and even revolution could serve as a powerful source of inspiration and self-renewal. Over a ten-year period that began in the 1920s and ended with his public break with the Soviet Union in 1936, Gide the committed intellectual interacted with society in ways that were for him unprecedented. These essays examine the outcomes of Gide s evolving commitment to a host of controversial issues ranging from the sexual to the political, from the literary to the social.

Reinventing Order in the Congo

Author : Theodore Trefon
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842774915
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Order in the Congo written by Theodore Trefon and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The populations of many Third World mega-cities have far outstripped any apparent economic basis for their size and survival. In this volume Congolese and Western social scientists cover most aspects of urban life in Kinshasa--how ordinary people hustle for a modest living; the famous "bargaining" system ordinary Kinois have developed; and how they access food, water supplies, health and education. The NGOization of service provision is analyzed, as is the quite rare incidence of urban riots. Equally interesting are the studies of popular discourses (including street rumor, witchcraft, and attitudes to big men, like musicians and preachers). The studies are full of the most startling facts and the wonderfully evocative phrases coined by ordinary Kinois as they confront the huge obstacle course that is urban life. Concrete, readable, intensely interesting, and always illuminating, this book is a model of how to do urban sociology in the developing world today.

Bulletin

Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bulletin written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quarterly accession lists; beginning with Apr. 1893, the bulletin is limited to "subject lists, special bibliographies, and reprints or facsimiles of original documents, prints and manuscripts in the Library," the accessions being recorded in a separate classified list, Jan.-Apr. 1893, a weekly bulletin Apr. 1893-Apr. 1894, as well as a classified list of later accessions in the last number published of the bulletin itself (Jan. 1896)

Naming Colonialism

Author : Osumaka Likaka
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299233634
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Naming Colonialism written by Osumaka Likaka and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2009-12-08 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What’s in a name? As Osumaka Likaka argues in this illuminating study, the names that Congolese villagers gave to European colonizers reveal much about how Africans experienced and reacted to colonialism. The arrival of explorers, missionaries, administrators, and company agents allowed Africans to observe Westerners’ physical appearances, behavior, and cultural practices at close range—often resulting in subtle yet trenchant critiques. By naming Europeans, Africans turned a universal practice into a local mnemonic system, recording and preserving the village’s understanding of colonialism in the form of pithy verbal expressions that were easy to remember and transmit across localities, regions, and generations. Methodologically innovative, Naming Colonialism advances a new approach that shows how a cultural process—the naming of Europeans—can provide a point of entry into economic and social histories. Drawing on archival documents and oral interviews, Likaka encounters and analyzes a welter of coded fragments. The vivid epithets Congolese gave to rubber company agents—“the home burner,” “Leopard,” “Beat, beat,” “The hippopotamus-hide whip”—clearly conveyed the violence that underpinned colonial extractive economies. Other names were subtler, hinting at derogatory meaning by way of riddles, metaphors, or symbols to which the Europeans were oblivious. Africans thus emerge from this study as autonomous actors whose capacity to observe, categorize, and evaluate reverses our usual optic, providing a critical window on Central African colonialism in its local and regional dimensions.

Bibliography of Soils of the Tropics: Tropics in general and Africa

Author : Arnold Clifford Orvedal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bibliography of Soils of the Tropics: Tropics in general and Africa written by Arnold Clifford Orvedal and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Democratic Republic of the Congo. La République Démocratique du Congo

Author : Julien Bobineau
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643134738
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Democratic Republic of the Congo. La République Démocratique du Congo written by Julien Bobineau and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume brings together English and French language contributions that add to an in-depth picture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's current state of affairs. The authors from various academic fields who research and teach at universities in Africa, Asia and Europe focus on political and economic perspectives, education and civil society, health and environment, the country's international relations as well as historical foundations. They analyse the problems the country is facing but also point out where progress has been made, where possibilities lie - and how these possibilities can come to fruition.

Canada, the Congo Crisis, and UN Peacekeeping, 1960-64

Author : Kevin A. Spooner
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774858958
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Canada, the Congo Crisis, and UN Peacekeeping, 1960-64 written by Kevin A. Spooner and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1960 the Republic of Congo teetered near collapse as its first government struggled to cope with civil unrest and mutinous armed forces. When the UN established a peacekeeping operation to deal with the crisis, the Canadian government faced a difficult decision. Should it support the intervention? By offering one of the first detailed accounts of Canadian involvement in a UN peacekeeping mission, Kevin Spooner reveals that Canada’s involvement was not a certainty: the Diefenbaker government had immediate and ongoing reservations about the mission, reservations that challenge cherished notions of Canada’s commitment to the UN and its status as a peacekeeper.

Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa

Author : United States. Joint Publications Research Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa written by United States. Joint Publications Research Service and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Origins of AIDS

Author : Jacques Pépin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108800564
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of AIDS written by Jacques Pépin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experiences working as a physician in a bush hospital in Zaire, Jacques Pépin looks back to the early twentieth-century events in central Africa that triggered the emergence of HIV/AIDS and traces its subsequent development into the most dramatic and destructive epidemic of modern times. He shows how the disease was first transmitted from chimpanzees to man and then how military campaigns, urbanisation, prostitution and large-scale colonial medical interventions intended to eradicate tropical diseases combined to disastrous effect to fuel the spread of the virus from its origins in Léopoldville to the rest of Africa, the Caribbean and ultimately worldwide. This is an essential perspective on HIV/AIDS and on the lessons that must be learned as the world faces another pandemic.

The Political Role of Christian Missions in the Belgian Congo, 1908-1960

Author : Marvin D. Markowitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1084 pages
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Download or read book The Political Role of Christian Missions in the Belgian Congo, 1908-1960 written by Marvin D. Markowitz and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Desarrollo de productos de raíces y tubérculos

Author : Gregory J. Scott
Publisher : International Potato Center
ISBN 13 : 9789290601630
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Desarrollo de productos de raíces y tubérculos written by Gregory J. Scott and published by International Potato Center. This book was released on 1992 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women of the Iberian Atlantic

Author : Sarah E. Owens
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807147729
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Women of the Iberian Atlantic written by Sarah E. Owens and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-12-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore the lives, places, and stories of women in the Iberian Atlantic between 1500 and 1800. Distinguished contributors such as Ida Altman, Matt D. Childs, and Allyson M. Poska utilize the complexities of gender to understand issues of race, class, family, health, and religious practices in the Atlantic basin. Unlike previous scholarship, which has focused primarily on upper-class and noble women, this book examines the lives of those on the periphery, including free and enslaved Africans, colonized indigenous mothers, and poor Spanish women. Chapters range broadly across time periods and regions of the Atlantic world. The authors explore the lives of Caribbean women in the earliest era of Spanish colonization and gender norms in Spain and its far-flung colonies. They extend the boundaries of the traditional Atlantic by analyzing healing knowledge of indigenous women in Portuguese Goa and kinship bonds among women in Spanish East Texas. Together, these innovative essays rechart the Iberian Atlantic while revealing the widespread impact of women's activities on the emergence of the Iberian Atlantic world.