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&q...

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Main Author: Henriet, Benoît (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2021]
Series:Africa in global history ; volume 3.
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