Colonial impotence : : virtue and violence in a congolese concession (1911-1940) / / Benoît Henriet.
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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Place / Publishing House: | Boston, Massachusetts : : De Gruyter,, [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Africa in Global History
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XI, 191 p.) |
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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