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Land of Tears

- The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa
Af: Robert Harms Engelsk Hardback

Land of Tears

- The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa
Af: Robert Harms Engelsk Hardback
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A prizewinning historian''s epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa

In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which this happened. Beginning in the 1870s, traders, explorers, and empire builders from Arabia, Europe, and America moved rapidly into the region, where they pioneered a deadly trade in ivory and rubber for Western markets and in enslaved labor for the Indian Ocean rim. Imperial conquest followed close behind.

Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Land of Tears reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world.

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A prizewinning historian''s epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa

In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which this happened. Beginning in the 1870s, traders, explorers, and empire builders from Arabia, Europe, and America moved rapidly into the region, where they pioneered a deadly trade in ivory and rubber for Western markets and in enslaved labor for the Indian Ocean rim. Imperial conquest followed close behind.

Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Land of Tears reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 544
ISBN-13: 9780465028634
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0465028632
Kategori: Historie
Udg. Dato: 16 jan 2020
Længde: 47mm
Bredde: 243mm
Højde: 165mm
Forlag: Basic Books
Oplagsdato: 16 jan 2020
Forfatter(e): Robert Harms
Forfatter(e) Robert Harms

Kategori Historie

ISBN-13 9780465028634

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 544

Udgave

Længde 47mm

Bredde 243mm

Højde 165mm

Udg. Dato 16 jan 2020

Oplagsdato 16 jan 2020

Forlag Basic Books