Title:
Land of tears : the exploration and exploitation of equatorial Africa / Robert Harms.
ISBN:
9780465028634
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, 2019.
©2019
Physical Description:
v, 537 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Manyema -- Competition for the Atlantic Coast -- The Grand Highway of Commerce -- Homeward Bound -- A Torrent of Treaties -- Creating the Congos -- Rescuing Emin -- Things Fall Apart -- Concession Companies and Colonial Violence -- The "Red Rubber" Scandals -- The End of Red Rubber.
Summary:
"In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which the heart of Africa was utterly transformed in the nineteenth century and the rainforest of the Congo River basin became one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Harms reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world"-- Provided by publisher.
OCLC Number:
on1104908900
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