Colonial impotence virtue and violence in a congolese concession (1911-1940)
In Colonial Impotence, Benoît Henriet studies the violent contradictions of colonial rule from the standpoint of the Leverville concession, Belgian Congo’s largest palm oil exploitation. Leverville was imagined as a benevolent tropical utopia, whose Congolese workers would be "civilized" t...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin/Boston
De Gruyter
2021
Boston, Massachusetts : [2021] |
| Colección: | Africa in Global History
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009675626006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Table of figures
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: “Congo Atrocities!!!”
- Chapter 1: The virtuous enclave
- Chapter 2: Impotent agents
- Chapter 3: Ordering and evading
- Chapter 4: An indescribable ugliness
- Chapter 5: The concession embodied
- Chapter 6: A war against nature
- Conclusion: The concession experience
- Bibliography
- Index
