Colonial impotence : virtue and violence in a Congolese concession (1911-1940) /
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&qu...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Oldenbourg,
[2021]
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| Series: | Africa in global history ;
volume 3. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
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