Lord Leverhulmes Ghosts
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Author | : Jules Marchal |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2017-01-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1784786330 |
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The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian system of forced labour, a programme that reduced the population of Congo by half and accounted for more deaths than the Nazi Holocaust. In this definitive, meticulously researched history, Jules Marchal exposes the nature of forced labour under Lord Leverhulme’s rule and the appalling conditions imposed upon the people of Congo. With an extensive introduction by Adam Hochschild, Lord Leverhulme’s Ghosts is an important and urgently needed account of a laboratory of colonial exploitation.
Author | : A.J. Day |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 157 |
Release | : 2005-09-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1411652916 |
Download Fantasmagoriana (Tales of the Dead) Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
It was on a 'dark and stormy night', during the summer of 1816 that an eccentic group of English literati gathered at the Villa Diodati. The atmosphere at the Villa was charged by the violent streaks of lightening that licked at the mountain tops and split a black sky. As the wind outside whipped up the surface of lake Leman into a cauldron of waves the occupants of the Villa; Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Dr John Polidori, Percy Shelley and Claire Clairmont, whipped themselves into a gothic frenzy with recitals of haunting poetry and ghost stories. The stories that they read came from a book, originally written in German, that had recently been translated into French. The book that they read from was called Fantasmagoriana. Fantasmagoriana has a unique place in literary history. This is the first full translation of the stories that inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Dr John Polidori's The Vampyre.
Author | : Emma Crewe |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2021-05-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000182312 |
Download The Anthropology of Parliaments Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by anthropologists and politics scholars from around the world. Crewe’s insights deepen our understanding of the complexity of political institutions. She reveals how elected politicians navigate relationships by forging alliances and thwarting opponents; how parliamentary buildings are constructed as sites of work, debate and the nation in miniature; and how politicians and officials engage with hierarchies, continuity and change. This book also proposes how to study parliaments through an anthropological lens while in conversation with other disciplines. The dive into ethnographies from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Region demolishes hackneyed geo-political categories and culminates in a new comparative theory about the contradictions in everyday political work. This important book will be of interest to anyone studying parliaments but especially those in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology; politics, legal and development studies; and international relations.
Author | : Benoît Henriet |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2021-06-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110649098 |
Download Colonial Impotence Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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" through a paternalist machinery. However, the concession was marred by inefficiency, endemic corruption and intrinsic brutality. Colonial agents in the field could be seen as impotent, for they were both unable and unwilling to perform as expected. This book offers a new take on the joint experience of colonialism and capitalism in Southwest Congo, and sheds light on their impact on local environments, bodies, societies and cosmogonies.
Author | : Nkechi Taifa |
Publisher | : Taifa Group |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2020-09-22 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781734769302 |
Download Black Power, Black Lawyer Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Black Power, Black Lawyer tells the story of the rebellious journey of a young woman coming of age during the Black Power era and the social justice lawyer she becomes.
Author | : Stephen Cave |
Publisher | : Crown |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307884937 |
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If you could live forever, would you want to? Both a fascinating look at the history of our strive for immortality and an investigation into whether living forever is really all it’s cracked up to be. A fascinating work of popular philosophy and history that both enlightens and entertains, Stephen Cave investigates whether it just might be possible to live forever and whether we should want to. He also makes a powerful argument that it’s our very preoccupation with defying mortality that drives civilization. Central to this book is the metaphor of a mountaintop where one can find the Immortals. Since the dawn of humanity, everyone – whether they know it or not—has been trying to climb that mountain. But there are only four paths up its treacherous slope, and there have only ever been four paths. Throughout history, people have wagered everything on their choice of the correct path, and fought wars against those who’ve chosen differently. In drawing back the curtain on what compels humans to “keep on keeping on,” Cave engages the reader in a number of mind-bending thought experiments. He teases out the implications of each immortality gambit, asking, for example, how long a person would live if they did manage to acquire a perfectly disease-free body. Or what would happen if a super-being tried to round up the atomic constituents of all who’ve died in order to resurrect them. Or what our loved ones would really be doing in heaven if it does exist. We’re confronted with a series of brain-rattling questions: What would happen if tomorrow humanity discovered that there is no life but this one? Would people continue to please their boss, vie for the title of Year’s Best Salesman? Would three-hundred-year projects still get started? If the four paths up the Mount of the Immortals lead nowhere—if there is no getting up to the summit—is there still reason to live? And can civilization survive? Immortality is a deeply satisfying book, as optimistic about the human condition as it is insightful about the true arc of history.
Author | : Ludo De Witte |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2022-10-25 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1839767928 |
Download The Assassination of Lumumba Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Assassination of Lumumba unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba—the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity—since it perpetration. Making use of a huge array of official sources as well as personal testimony from many of those in the Congo at the time, Ludo De Witte reveals a network of complicity ranging from the Belgian government to the CIA. Patrice Lumumba’s personal strength and his quest for African unity emerges in stark contrast with one of the murkiest episodes in twentieth-century politics.
Author | : Julie Barrau |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2021-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107160804 |
Download Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Offers a new take on the identities and life histories of medieval people, in their multi-layered and sometimes contradictory dimensions.
Author | : Cedric J. Robinson |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2016-03-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1469628228 |
Download The Terms of Order Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion, maintained in part by Western political and social theorists who depend on the idea of leadership as a basis for describing and prescribing social order. Using a variety of critical approaches in his analysis, Robinson synthesizes elements of psychoanalysis, structuralism, Marxism, classical and neoclassical political philosophy, and cultural anthropology in order to argue that Western thought on leadership is mythological rather than rational. He then presents examples of historically developed "stateless" societies with social organizations that suggest conceptual alternatives to the ways political order has been conceived in the West. Examining Western thought from the vantage point of a people only marginally integrated into Western institutions and intellectual traditions, Robinson's perspective radically critiques fundamental ideas of leadership and order.
Author | : Philipp Blom |
Publisher | : Basic Books (AZ) |
Total Pages | : 490 |
Release | : 2010-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0465020291 |
Download The Vertigo Years Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Examines how changes from the Industrial Revolution prior to World War I brought about radical transformation in society, changes in education, and massive migration in population that led to one of the bloodiest events in history.