Land of tears : the exploration and exploitation of equatorial Africa

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Label

Land of tears : the exploration and exploitation of equatorial Africa

Title remainder

the exploration and exploitation of equatorial Africa

Statement of responsibility

Robert Harms

Creator

• Harms, Robert, 1946-

Author

• Harms, Robert, 1946-

Subject

• Africa, Central -- History -- To 1884
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers
• Africa, Central -- Colonization | Environmental aspects
• HISTORY / Africa / Central
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
• BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History
• Africa, Central -- Colonization | Social aspects

Language

eng

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"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

IEN/DLC

Dewey number

967.031

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

DT352.7

LC item number

.H373 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography