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King Leopold's Ghost

Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1760785202
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book King Leopold's Ghost written by Adam Hochschild and published by Picador. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.

The Belgian Congo To-day

Author : Belgian Congo. Centre d'information et de documentation du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book The Belgian Congo To-day written by Belgian Congo. Centre d'information et de documentation du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

News from Belgium and the Belgian Congo

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book News from Belgium and the Belgian Congo written by and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Belgian Congo Today

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Belgian Congo Today written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Belgian Congo To-day

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Belgian Congo To-day written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Recalling the Belgian Congo

Author : Marie-Bénédicte Dembour
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857457128
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)

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Book Synopsis Recalling the Belgian Congo by : Marie-Bénédicte Dembour

Download or read book Recalling the Belgian Congo written by Marie-Bénédicte Dembour and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the author embarked on her study, her aim was to approach former colonial officers with a view to analyzing processes of domination in the ex-Belgian Congo. However, after establishing a rapport with some of these officers, the author was soon forced to revise her initial assumptions, widely held in present-day Belgium: these officers were not the "baddies" she had expected to meet. Exploring the colonial experience through the respondents' memories resulted in a far more complex picture of the colonial situation than she had anticipated, again forcing her to question her original assumptions. This resulted not only in a more differentiated perspective on Belgian colonialist rule, but is also sensitized her as regards the question of anthropological understanding and of what constitutes historical fact. These two aspects of her work are reflected in this study that offers specific material on the way Belgian colonialism is remembered and reflects on its conditions of production, thus combining ethnographic analysis with a theoretical essay.

Selling the Congo

Author : Matthew G. Stanard
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803239882
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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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.

Yesterday and Today. [Illustrations of Life in the Belgian Congo.].

Author : Centre d'information et de documentation du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi (Belgium)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (557 download)

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Download or read book Yesterday and Today. [Illustrations of Life in the Belgian Congo.]. written by Centre d'information et de documentation du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi (Belgium) and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980

Author : Guy Vanthemsche
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521194210
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Book Synopsis Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 by : Guy Vanthemsche

Download or read book Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 written by Guy Vanthemsche and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how and why Belgium, a small but influential European country, was changed through its colonial activities in the Congo, from the first expeditions in 1880 to the Mobutu regime in the 1980s. Belgian politics, diplomacy, economic activity and culture were influenced by the imperial experience. Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 yields a better understanding of the Congo's past and present.

In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism

Author : J. P. Daughton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393541029
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism written by J. P. Daughton and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ostensibly democratic nation whose motto read “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” but liberal ideals were savaged by a cruelly indifferent administrative state. African workers were forcibly conscripted and separated from their families, and subjected to hellish conditions as they hacked their way through dense tropical foliage—a “forest of no joy”; excavated by hand thousands of tons of earth in order to lay down track; blasted their way through rock to construct tunnels; or risked their lives building bridges over otherwise impassable rivers. In the process, they suffered disease, malnutrition, and rampant physical abuse, likely resulting in at least 20,000 deaths. In the Forest of No Joy captures in vivid detail the experiences of the men, women, and children who toiled on the railroad, and forces a reassessment of the moral relationship between modern industrialized empires and what could be called global humanitarian impulses—the desire to improve the lives of people outside of Europe. Drawing on exhaustive research in French and Congolese archives, a chilling documentary record, and heartbreaking photographic evidence, J.P. Daughton tells the epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad, and in doing so reveals the human costs and contradictions of modern empire.

Verbatim Report of the Five Days' Congo Debate in the Belgian House of Representatives

Author : Belgium. Corps législatif, 1906. Chambre des représentants
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Verbatim Report of the Five Days' Congo Debate in the Belgian House of Representatives written by Belgium. Corps législatif, 1906. Chambre des représentants and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Belgian Congo and the Berlin Act

Author : Arthur Berriedale Keith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Belgian Congo and the Berlin Act written by Arthur Berriedale Keith and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Back to the Congo

Author : Lieve Joris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Back to the Congo written by Lieve Joris and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Congo

Author : David Van Reybrouck
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062200135
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Congo written by David Van Reybrouck and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad),David van Reybrouck’s rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, tells the extraordinary story of one of the world's most devastated countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo. Epic in scope yet eminently readable, penetrating and deeply moving, David van Reybrouck's Congo: The Epic History of a People traces the fate of one of the world's most critical, failed nation-states, second only to war-torn Somalia: the Democratic Republic of Congo. Van Reybrouck takes us through several hundred years of history, bringing some of the most dramatic episodes in Congolese history. Here are the people and events that have impinged the Congo's development—from the slave trade to the ivory and rubber booms; from the arrival of Henry Morton Stanley to the tragic regime of King Leopold II; from global indignation to Belgian colonialism; from the struggle for independence to Mobutu's brutal rule; and from the world famous Rumble in the Jungle to the civil war over natural resources that began in 1996 and still rages today. Van Reybrouck interweaves his own family's history with the voices of a diverse range of individuals—charismatic dictators, feuding warlords, child-soldiers, the elderly, female merchant smugglers, and many in the African diaspora of Europe and China—to offer a deeply humane approach to political history, focusing squarely on the Congolese perspective and returning a nation's history to its people.

Colonialism in the Congo

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonialism in the Congo written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Belgian Congo

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (933 download)

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Belgian Congo

Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : Booksllc.Net
ISBN 13 : 9781230816791
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Belgian Congo written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Belgian Congo general election, 1960, Colonization of the Congo, Force Publique, Independance Cha Cha, Jean Cuvelier, List of birds on stamps of Belgian Congo, List of ministers of the Belgian Congo, National Institute for Agronomy in Belgian Congo, Nkutama a mvila za makanda, Thangata, Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, Victor Roelens, Zappo Zap. Excerpt: The Belgian Congo (French: , Dutch: .)) was the formal title of present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) between King Leopold II's formal relinquishment of his personal control over the state to Belgium on 15 November 1908, and Congolese independence on 30 June 1960. Leopold II, King of the Belgians and de facto owner of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. Map of the Free Congo State, 1890. Congolese children and wives whose fathers failed to meet rubber collection quotas were often punished by having their hands cut off.Until the later part of the 19th century, the Europeans had not yet ventured into the Congo. The rainforest, swamps and accompanying malaria, and other diseases, such as sleeping sickness, made it a difficult environment for European exploration and exploitation. In 1876, King Leopold II of the Belgians organized the International African Association with the cooperation of the leading African explorers and the support of several European governments for the promotion of African exploration and colonization. After Henry Morton Stanley explored the region, a journey that ended in 1878, Leopold courted the explorer and hired him to help establish Leopold's interests in the region. While exploring the Congo, Stanley made contracts with native leaders. Few to none of these tribal leaders had a realistic idea of what they were signing. In essence these documents gave over all rights of their respective pieces of land to King Leopold...