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Land of tears : the exploration and exploitation of equatorial Africa
- Title
- Land of tears : the exploration and exploitation of equatorial Africa / Robert Harms.
- Author
- Harms, Robert, 1946-
- Publication
- New York : Basic Books, [2019]
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- v, 537 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-522) and index.
- Contents
- Manyema -- Competition for the Atlantic Coast -- The Grand Highway of Commerce -- Homeward Bound -- A Torrent of Treaties -- Creating the Congos -- Rescuing Emin -- Things Fall Apart -- Concession Companies and Colonial Violence -- The "Red Rubber" Scandals -- The End of Red Rubber.
- Call Number
- Sc E 20-123
- ISBN
- 9780465028634
- 0465028632
- LCCN
- 2019021576
- OCLC
- 1104908900
- Author
- Harms, Robert, 1946- author.
- Title
- Land of tears : the exploration and exploitation of equatorial Africa / Robert Harms.
- Publisher
- New York : Basic Books, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill imagecartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-522) and index.
- Local Note
- AUTH: YALE UNIV. STUDY OF THE GLOBAL IMPACT OF THE 19TH CENT. EXPLOITATION OF CENTRAL AFRICA
- Chronological Term
- To 1884
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 20-123