Author: Maya Jasanoff
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1594205817
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
"An exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad [and] his turbulent age of globalization--and our own"--Provided by publisher.
The Dawn Watch
Author: Maya Jasanoff
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1594205817
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
"An exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad [and] his turbulent age of globalization--and our own"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1594205817
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
"An exploration of the life and times of Joseph Conrad [and] his turbulent age of globalization--and our own"--Provided by publisher.
The Congo
Author: Leo Zeilig
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1848130902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Since well before Henry Morgan Stanley's fabled encounter with David Livingstone on the shore on Lake Tanganyika in the late 19th century and his subsequent collaboration with King Leopold of Belgium in looting the country of its mineral wealth, the Congo's history has been one of collaboration by a minority with, and struggle by the majority against, Western intervention. Before the colonial period, there were military struggles against annexation. During Belgian rule, charismatic religious figures emerged, promising an end to white domination; copper miners struck for higher wages; and rural workers struggled for survival. During the second half of the 20th century, the Congo's efforts at disentanglement from Belgian rule, the murder of the nationalist leader Patrice Lumumba and the long dictatorship of General Mobutu culminated in one of the bloodiest wars the world has ever seen. At the start of a new millennium, this book argues that the West has plundered Africa to its own advantage and that unrestrained global capitalism threatens to remake the entire world, bringing violence and destruction in the name of profit. In this radical history, the authors show not only how the Congo represents and symbolises the continent's long history of subordination, but also how the determined struggle of its people has continued, against the odds, to provide the Congo and the rest of Africa with real hope for the future.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1848130902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Since well before Henry Morgan Stanley's fabled encounter with David Livingstone on the shore on Lake Tanganyika in the late 19th century and his subsequent collaboration with King Leopold of Belgium in looting the country of its mineral wealth, the Congo's history has been one of collaboration by a minority with, and struggle by the majority against, Western intervention. Before the colonial period, there were military struggles against annexation. During Belgian rule, charismatic religious figures emerged, promising an end to white domination; copper miners struck for higher wages; and rural workers struggled for survival. During the second half of the 20th century, the Congo's efforts at disentanglement from Belgian rule, the murder of the nationalist leader Patrice Lumumba and the long dictatorship of General Mobutu culminated in one of the bloodiest wars the world has ever seen. At the start of a new millennium, this book argues that the West has plundered Africa to its own advantage and that unrestrained global capitalism threatens to remake the entire world, bringing violence and destruction in the name of profit. In this radical history, the authors show not only how the Congo represents and symbolises the continent's long history of subordination, but also how the determined struggle of its people has continued, against the odds, to provide the Congo and the rest of Africa with real hope for the future.
The Publisher
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Languages : en
Pages : 1126
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Pages : 1126
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Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 7
Author: Peter J Kitson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000558991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000558991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.
The Latest Age
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Languages : en
Pages : 1086
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Pages : 1086
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The Diary of A.J. Mounteney Jephson
Author: Dorothy Middleton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351891618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This is a first-hand account of the expedition led by H. M. Stanley in 1887-89 to the relief of Emin Pasha, Governor of Equatoria. A. J. Mounteney Jephson, a typical late Victorian traveller, took part in Stanley’s last expedition in Africa. His recently-discovered diary describes the voyage out of the mouth of the Congo; the journey up the Congo and across the Ituri forests to Lake Albert; the meeting with Emin Pasha; the mutiny of Emin’s troops and their imprisonment of Emin and Jephson; and the journey back to the East coast. Though it fell short of its political and commercial aims, the expedition was important geographically as it solved the last mystery of African topography - the position and nature of the sources of the Nile.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351891618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This is a first-hand account of the expedition led by H. M. Stanley in 1887-89 to the relief of Emin Pasha, Governor of Equatoria. A. J. Mounteney Jephson, a typical late Victorian traveller, took part in Stanley’s last expedition in Africa. His recently-discovered diary describes the voyage out of the mouth of the Congo; the journey up the Congo and across the Ituri forests to Lake Albert; the meeting with Emin Pasha; the mutiny of Emin’s troops and their imprisonment of Emin and Jephson; and the journey back to the East coast. Though it fell short of its political and commercial aims, the expedition was important geographically as it solved the last mystery of African topography - the position and nature of the sources of the Nile.
Rogue Empires
Author: Steven Press
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067497185X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The man who bought a country -- The emergence of an idea -- King Leopold's Borneo -- Bismarck's Borneo -- Epilogue: "A great act of folly
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067497185X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
The man who bought a country -- The emergence of an idea -- King Leopold's Borneo -- Bismarck's Borneo -- Epilogue: "A great act of folly
The Nation
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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History of the United Netherlands
Author: John Lothrop Motley
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Category : Netherlands
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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Category : Netherlands
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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The Journal of the Manchester geographical society
Author: Manchester geographical society
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Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Languages : en
Pages : 442
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