Author: Demetrius Charles BoulgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Belgium
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Reign of Leopold II, King of the Belgians and Founder of the Congo State, 1865-1909
Author: Demetrius Charles BoulgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Belgium
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Reign of Leopold II, King of the Belgians and Founder of the Congo State, 1865-1909
Author: Demetrius Charles BoulgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Belgium
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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.
Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and its Empires
Author: Prem PoddarPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748650970
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 847
Book Description
The first reference work to provide an integrated and authoritative body of information about the political, cultural and economic contexts of postcolonial literatures that have their provenance in the major European Empires of Belgium, Denmark, France, G
Selling the Congo
Author: Matthew G. StanardPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803239882
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
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.
Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa
Author: Robert Aleksander MaryksPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004347151
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Protestants entering Africa in the nineteenth century sought to learn from earlier Jesuit presence in Ethiopia and southern Africa. The nineteenth century was itself a century of missionary scramble for Africa during which the Jesuits encountered their Protestant counterparts as both sought to evangelize the African native. Encounters between Jesuits and Protestants in Africa, edited by Robert Alexander Maryks and Festo Mkenda, S.J., presents critical reflections on the nature of those encounters in southern Africa and in Ethiopia, Madagascar, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Fernando Po. Though largely marked by mutual suspicion and outright competition, the encounters also reveal personal appreciations and support across denominational boundaries and thus manifest salient lessons for ecumenical encounters even in our own time. This volume is the result of the second Boston College International Symposium on Jesuit Studies held at the Jesuit Historical Institute in Africa (Nairobi, Kenya) in 2016. Thanks to generous support of the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College, it is available in Open Access.
Heart of Darkness
Author: The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: M. EpsteinPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270646
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1517
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Casement Report
Author: Roger CasementPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734043476
Category : Fiction
Languages : fr
Pages : 305
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Casement Report by Roger Casement
The History of Belgium
Author: Demetrius Charles BoulgerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Belgium
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description