Author: Harry JohnstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Brazzaville)
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
George Grenfell and the Congo: Anthropology ; Native diseases ; Artificial adornments or mutilations of the body, dress, etc. ; Food, agriculture, cooking ; Religion. Burial, marriage, and birth customs. Initiation ceremonies. Social laws, slavery. Administration of justice, etc. ; Houses ; Hunting, warfare, navigation ; Trade and currency ; Arts and industries ; Traditions, stories, folklore ; The languages of the Congo Basin and the Cameroons. Appendix I: The Fernandian or Bube language ; Appendix II: Bibliography of Congo-Cameroons languages ; Appendix III: The Fañ dialects ; Natural history notes: Meteorology, geology, and botany of the Congo basin ; Natural history notes: Zoology of the Congo basin. Additional note on elephant tusks ; Notes on the Island of Fernando Pô ; Additional note on Congo problems
Author: Harry JohnstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Brazzaville)
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
George Grenfell and the Congo
Author: Harry JohnstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Brazzaville)
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
George Grenfell and the Congo: ) Anthropology
Author: Harry JohnstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
George Grenfell and the Congo
Author: Harry JohnstonPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
King Leopold's Ghost
Author: Adam HochschildPublisher: Picador
ISBN: 1760785202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
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.
Man, Past and Present
Author: Augustus Henry KeanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
The American West and the World
Author: Janne LahtiPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317285336
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The American West and the World provides a synthetic introduction to the transnational history of the American West. Drawing from the insights of recent scholarship, Janne Lahti recenters the history of the U.S. West in the global contexts of empires and settler colonialism, discussing exploration, expansion, migration, violence, intimacies, and ideas. Lahti examines established subfields of Western scholarship, such as borderlands studies and transnational histories of empire, as well as relatively unexplored connections between the West and geographically nonadjacent spaces. Lucid and incisive, The American West and the World firmly situates the historical West in its proper global context.
Vasco Da Gama and His Successors, 1460-1580
Author: Kingsley Garland JaynePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Southern Workman
Author: The Negro in the New World
Author: Harry Hamilton JohnstonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781639238590
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the year 1910, however, I have tried to tell in words as well as pictures the story of the negro IN the new world, as much for my own education as for that of others. For those who are too busy to do more than glance at the pictures, and perhaps read through this preface (which is as much as fifty per cent of modern reviewers are able to accomplish, amid the rain of books in the English language), I will here summarise the conclusions to be deduced from my Opinions and (i think) from my array of evidence.