Colonial impotence : virtue and violence in a congolese concession (1911-1940)

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Henriet, Benoît, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2021
Boston, Massachusetts : [2021]
Series:Africa in Global History
Subjects:
1900-1999
Logging > Congo (Democratic Republic) > History > 20th century.
Congo (Democratic Republic) > History > 1908-1960.
History.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009675626006719
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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