Land of tears the exploration and exploitation of equatorial Africa

Manyema -- Atlantic Coast -- Highway of Commerce -- Homeward Bound -- Torrent of Treaties -- Creating the Congos -- Rescuing Emin -- Things Fall Apart -- Concession Companies -- Red Rubber Scandals -- End of Red Rubber.

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1. Verfasser: Harms, Robert W. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: New York Basic Books 2019
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Zusammenfassung:Manyema -- Atlantic Coast -- Highway of Commerce -- Homeward Bound -- Torrent of Treaties -- Creating the Congos -- Rescuing Emin -- Things Fall Apart -- Concession Companies -- Red Rubber Scandals -- End of Red Rubber.
"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"--
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:537 pages
ISBN:9780465028634
978-0-465-02863-4