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Book Synopsis The Congo Railway from Matadi to the Stanley Pool by : Compagnie du Congo pour le commerce et l'industrie, Brussels
Download or read book The Congo Railway from Matadi to the Stanley Pool written by Compagnie du Congo pour le commerce et l'industrie, Brussels and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Compagnie du Congo pour le commerce et l'industrie. (Société anonyme) Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :126 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (83 download)
Book Synopsis The Congo-railway from Matadi to the Stanley Pool by : Compagnie du Congo pour le commerce et l'industrie. (Société anonyme)
Download or read book The Congo-railway from Matadi to the Stanley Pool written by Compagnie du Congo pour le commerce et l'industrie. (Société anonyme) and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congo written by Andrew C A Jampoler and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-06-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauded for his ability to tell compelling, true adventure stories, award-winning author Andrew C.A. Jampoler has turned his attention this time to a young American naval officer on a mission up the Congo River in May 1885. Lt. Emory Taunt was ordered to explore as much of the river as possible and report on opportunities for Americans in the potentially rich African marketplace. A little more than five years later, Taunt, 39, was buried near the place he had first come ashore in Africa. His personal demons and the Congo’s lethal fevers had killed him. In 2011, to better understand what happened, Jampoler retraced Taunt’s expedition in an outboard motorboat. Striking photographs from the author’s trip are included to lend a visual dimension to the original journey. Readers join Taunt in his exploration of some 1400 miles of river and follow him on two additional assignments. A commercial venture to collect elephant ivory in the river’s great basin and an appointment as the U.S. State Department’s first resident diplomat in Boma, capital of King Leopold II’s Congo Free State, are filled with promise. But instead of becoming rich and famous, he died alone, bankrupt, and disgraced. Jampoler’s account of what went so dreadfully wrong is both thrilling and tragic. He provides not only a fascinating look at Taunt’s brief and extraordinary life, but also a glimpse of the role the United States played in the birth of the Congo nation, and the increasingly awkward position Washington found itself as stories of atrocities against the natives began to leak out.
Book Synopsis Heart of Darkness by : Joseph Conrad
Download or read book Heart of Darkness written by Joseph Conrad and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I asked myself what I was doing there, with a sensation of panic in my heart as though I had blundered into a place of cruel and absurd mysteries not fit for a human being to behold'. Charles Marlow's dark intuition here arrives at the culmination of his physical and psychological quest in search of the infamous ivory-trader Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's most famous short story, Heart of Darkness. Ambiguously drawn to the powerful 'voice' of this autocratic European who has become a self-proclaimed ruler in an African colony, Marlow is increasingly embroiled in Kurtz's life and death: he is finally forced into a radical questioning, not only of his own assumptions, but also of the civilized and imperial pretensions of Western Europe. Offering a freshly-researched text based on the writer's original documents, this edition presents a classic of early modernist fiction in a version that, for the first time, recovers Conrad's preferred wordings, punctuation and narrative structure.
Author :Compagnie du Congo pour le commerce et l'industrie (Brussels, Belgium) Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :126 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (12 download)
Book Synopsis The Congo-railway from Matadi to the Stanley Pool by : Compagnie du Congo pour le commerce et l'industrie (Brussels, Belgium)
Download or read book The Congo-railway from Matadi to the Stanley Pool written by Compagnie du Congo pour le commerce et l'industrie (Brussels, Belgium) and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report by : Commonwealth Shipping Committee
Download or read book Report written by Commonwealth Shipping Committee and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Book Synopsis The Historian's Heart of Darkness by : Mark D. Larabee
Download or read book The Historian's Heart of Darkness written by Mark D. Larabee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction has power to portray historical truth. This book presents Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to students and general readers as an insightful guide to the history of Europe and Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The phrase "heart of darkness" has become a term commonly used to conjure an ominous sense of hidden or deeply rooted evil. How did these words become so evocative? The answer lies in the richness and acute insight of Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's story based on his 1890 journey on the Congo River. Conrad's novella illustrates many crucial themes of European and world history through the last two centuries: civilization; exploration; colonialism and imperialism; race and conflict based on race; trade and globalization; commercial exploitation; and the impact of changing technology, especially for communication and transport. Heart of Darkness deserves to be studied today for its value as social and cultural history. In this edition, Conrad's story is shown to reveal important truths not only about Europe and Africa a century ago, but also about the historical forces that shape the world we live in now. Featuring the texts of both Heart of Darkness and Conrad's autobiographical Congo Diary along with more than 200 annotations, this book enables readers to appreciate the connections between Conrad's writing and its historical context. Introductory essays explain how Conrad was uniquely positioned to chronicle history, provide critical background information on how Europeans partitioned Africa and created the Congo Free State, and describe how the ivory and rubber trades brutalized the natives. Readers will learn how Conrad contributed to European awareness of the atrocities committed and understand how the story's literary qualities form an essential part of its historical meaning. The numerous illustrations and maps depicting the historical Congo Free State provide a visual element to the story of Heart of Darkness—a fictionalized tale that can be interpreted as history and that can help us interpret today's postcolonial, globalized world.
Book Synopsis World Trade Information Service by :
Download or read book World Trade Information Service written by and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An African Adventure by : Isaac Frederick Marcosson
Download or read book An African Adventure written by Isaac Frederick Marcosson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Compagnie Du Congo Pour Le Commerce Et L Publisher :Franklin Classics Trade Press ISBN 13 :9780344031571 Total Pages :156 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (315 download)
Book Synopsis The Congo-Railway from Matadi to the Stanley-Pool by : Compagnie Du Congo Pour Le Commerce Et L
Download or read book The Congo-Railway from Matadi to the Stanley-Pool written by Compagnie Du Congo Pour Le Commerce Et L and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis Political Awakening in the Belgian Congo by : René Lemarchand
Download or read book Political Awakening in the Belgian Congo written by René Lemarchand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Political Awakening in the Congo by : Rene Lemarchand
Download or read book Political Awakening in the Congo written by Rene Lemarchand and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.
Book Synopsis Catastrophe and Creation by : K. Elkholm Friedmann
Download or read book Catastrophe and Creation written by K. Elkholm Friedmann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1992. This is a study of what happened to Kongo society and culture at the turn of the 20th century, when the area was penetrated, brutally violated and colonized by Europeans. This book is the outcome of a project called Society and Culture in Crisis whereby the author found that evolution was a continuous, more or less unbroken process only at the global system level, whereas repeated rises and falls took place at the local level. This study closely looks at the declining development process in the Lower Congo and calls to the effects of colonization on society and culture.
Download or read book Bibliographies written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hydrography and Navigation on the Congo River by : Paul Van Pul
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.
Download or read book The Dawn Watch written by Maya Jasanoff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Enlightening, compassionate, superb” —John Le Carré Winner of the 2018 Cundhill History Prize A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2017 A visionary exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad, his turbulent age of globalization and our own, from one of the most exciting young historians writing today Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, and a communications revolution: these forces shaped Joseph Conrad’s destiny at the dawn of the twentieth century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization. As an immigrant from Poland to England, and in travels from Malaya to Congo to the Caribbean, Conrad navigated an interconnected world, and captured it in a literary oeuvre of extraordinary depth. His life story delivers a history of globalization from the inside out, and reflects powerfully on the aspirations and challenges of the modern world. Joseph Conrad was born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857, to Polish parents in the Russian Empire. At sixteen he left the landlocked heart of Europe to become a sailor, and for the next twenty years travelled the world’s oceans before settling permanently in England as an author. He saw the surging, competitive "new imperialism" that planted a flag in almost every populated part of the globe. He got a close look, too, at the places “beyond the end of telegraph cables and mail-boat lines,” and the hypocrisy of the west’s most cherished ideals. In a compelling blend of history, biography, and travelogue, Maya Jasanoff follows Conrad’s routes and the stories of his four greatest works—The Secret Agent, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness, and Nostromo. Genre-bending, intellectually thrilling, and deeply humane, The Dawn Watch embarks on a spell-binding expedition into the dark heart of Conrad’s world—and through it to our own.
