The Congo : plunder and resistance /
This book traces the story of the Congo from the unleashing of King Leopard's fury across the region in the 19th century, to the Western sponsored murder of Patrice Lumumba in 1961 to the war that has ravaged the country since 1997. It is an immensely readable and radical introduction to the Co...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London, England :
Zed Books,
©2007.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book traces the story of the Congo from the unleashing of King Leopard's fury across the region in the 19th century, to the Western sponsored murder of Patrice Lumumba in 1961 to the war that has ravaged the country since 1997. It is an immensely readable and radical introduction to the Congo that pays attention to the importance of economic production for social organization throughout the country's recent history. It also argues that the nature of global capitalism, far from always leading to modernization, can in fact mean the expansion of private capital accompanied by social collapse. As for the future, the hope is that another politics will emerge from the resistance of ordinary Congolese to imperialist slaughter and the post-independence Mobutu dictatorship. -- Publisher's Description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (243 pages) : map. Also published in printing. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781350222991 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350222991 |
| Access: | Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers. |