Demetrius Charles Boulger

The Congo State

Or, the Growth of Civilisation in Central Africa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1898 publication documents the controversial colonial history of the Congo Free State during the reign of King Leopold II.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 704g
• ISBN-13: 9781108050692
• ISBN-10: 1108050697
• Artikelnr.: 36056060

Inhaltsangabe

1. The conception of the Congo state
2. The first Belgian expeditions
3. The founding of the state
4. The Congo and its affluents
5. The slave trade and its horrors
6. The earlier campaigns
7. The operations on the Lomani
8. The second Brussels Conference and the king's will
9. The Arab campaign
10. The later diplomatic arrangement
11. The extinction of the slave trade
12. The advance to the Nile
13. The Congo Public Force
14. The Batetela mutinies
15. The state administration
16. The revenue and the trade of the state
17. Railways and telegraphs of the Congo
18. The peoples of the Congo state
19. The state and its neighbours
20. Belgium and the Congo
Appendix
Index of subjects.