Author: François BontinckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Aux origines de l'État indépendant du Congo
Author: François BontinckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The Statesman's Year-book
Author: European Atrocity, African Catastrophe
Author: Sir Martin EwansPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317849078
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
There is a broad consensus among those who are concerned with Africa that the plight of the continent is approaching the catastrophic. Partly the roots of the problem are historical, stemming from the exploitation and colonisation of the continent by European powers. An appreciation of the history of the relationship between Europe and Africa, a major episode of which this book examines, is indispensable to an understanding of the continent's present predicament. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries King Leopold II of the Belgians established a colony in Africa, which, as the Congo Free State, became a byword for unremitting exploitation and widespread atrocities. This book describes the creation, the development and the collapse both of this regime and of the Belgian colony that replaced it. Conclusions are drawn about the nature of European colonialism in Africa and the consequences for Europe itself.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: J. Scott-KeltiePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270441
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1611
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980
Author: Guy VanthemschePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521194210
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
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.
Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence
Author: Fabian KlosePublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812244958
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Based on previously inaccessible material from international archives, Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence examines the relationship between emerging human rights concepts after 1945 and repressive British and French actions against anticolonial movements in Africa.
Congo
Author: Andrew JampolerPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612512704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
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.
Culpability of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Author: Abdul Karim BanguraPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0761868356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This book contributes to the debate over the culpability of the Trans-Atlantic Slave from various disciplinary perspectives. The general thesis that undergirds the book is that by knowing who was predisposed to benefit the most from the trade and why, prompting them to initiate it, appropriate culpability can be assigned. This approach also allowed for a more in-depth analysis of the issue from many disciplines, making it the first of its kind. For the sake of cohesion and coherence, some of the major questions addressed by every chapter are quite similar, albeit authors were encouraged to fine-tune and add to these questions to meet their disciplinary requirements. By emphasizing the why in some of the questions, a qualitative explanatory case study approach was utilized. Both primary and secondary data sources were also used for each chapter to offer a cogent analysis and new information on the topic.
Language and Colonial Power
Author: Johannes FabianPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520911865
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
In this study, inquiry will be directed to the past, and it will, for many reasons, have to reach into a past which is rather remote from present-day Shaba Swahili. The author's principal concern remains with a contemporary situation, namely the role of Swahili in the context of work, industrial, artisanal, and artistic. When it was first formulated, the aim of my project was to describe what might be called the workers' culture of Shaba, through analyses of communicative (sociolinguistic) and cognitive (ethnosemantic) aspects of language use.
George Washington Williams
Author: John Hope FranklinPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822321644
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A biography of fhe life of the amateur scholar who wrote the first history of African Americans in the United States: A HISTORY OF THE NEGRO RACE IN AMERICA (1882).