Belgium And The Congo 1885 1980
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Author |
: Guy Vanthemsche |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2012-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107375741 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107375746 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Belgium and the Congo, 1885–1980 by : Guy Vanthemsche
While the impact of a colonising metropole on subjected territories has been widely scrutinized, the effect of empire on the colonising country has long been neglected. Recently, many studies have examined the repercussions of their respective empires on colonial powers such as the United Kingdom and France. Belgium and its African empire have been conspicuously absent from this discussion. This book attempts to fill this gap. Belgium and the Congo, 1885–1980 examines the effects of colonialism on the domestic politics, diplomacy and economics of Belgium, from 1880 - when King Leopold II began the country's expansionist enterprises in Africa - to the 1980s, well after the Congo's independence in June of 1960. By examining the colonial impact on its mother country Belgium, this study also contributes to a better understanding of Congo's past and present.
Author |
: Guy Vanthemsche |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1146429168 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 by : Guy Vanthemsche
Author |
: Matthew G. Stanard |
Publisher |
: U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages |
: 404 |
Release |
: 2012-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780803239883 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0803239882 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Selling the Congo by : Matthew G. Stanard
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.
Author |
: Filip De Boeck |
Publisher |
: Leuven University Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2014-03-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789058679673 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9058679675 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kinshasa by : Filip De Boeck
Reading African cities into contemporary theory—reprint of a richly illustrated reference work In their internationally acclaimed publication Kinshasa: Tales of the Invisible City, anthropologist Filip De Boeck and photographer Marie-Françoise Plissart provide a history not only of the physical and visible urban reality that Kinshasa presents today, but also of a second, invisible city as it exists in the mind and imagination of its inhabitants. They bring to light a mirroring reality lurking underneath the surface of the visible world and explore the constant transactions that take place between these two levels in Kinshasa’s urban scape. With the exhibition that accompanied the release of their Kinshasa book, the authors won a Golden Lion at the 11th International Architecture Bienniale in Venice, 2004. This beautifully illustrated publication is now again made available. Based on longstanding field research, it provides insight into local social and cultural imaginaries, and thus in the imaginative ways in which local urban subjects continue to make sense of their worlds and invent cultural strategies to cope with the breakdown of urban infrastructure.
Author |
: Guy Vanthemsche |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 301 |
Release |
: 2012-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521194211 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521194210 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 by : Guy Vanthemsche
This book explains how and why Belgium, a small but influential European country, was changed through its colonial activities in the Congo, from the first expeditions in 1880 to the Mobutu regime in the 1980s. Belgian politics, diplomacy, economic activity and culture were influenced by the imperial experience. Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 yields a better understanding of the Congo's past and present.
Author |
: Roger Casement |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2018-09-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783734043475 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3734043476 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Casement Report by : Roger Casement
Reproduction of the original: The Casement Report by Roger Casement
Author |
: Adam Hochschild |
Publisher |
: Picador |
Total Pages |
: 474 |
Release |
: 2019-05-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781760785208 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1760785202 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis King Leopold's Ghost by : Adam Hochschild
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.
Author |
: Prem Poddar |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 847 |
Release |
: 2011-09-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748650972 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748650970 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures - Continental Europe and its Empires by : Prem Poddar
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
Author |
: J. H. Stape |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 1996-06-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521484847 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521484848 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Joseph Conrad by : J. H. Stape
Leading scholars provide a comprehensive introduction to the work of Joseph Conrad.
Author |
: Samuel White Baker |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 434 |
Release |
: 1867 |
ISBN-10 |
: BSB:BSB10620425 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources by : Samuel White Baker