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Author Harms, Robert, 1946- author.

Title Land of tears : the exploration and exploitation of equatorial Africa / Robert Harms.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, 2019.
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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  967.031 HARMS    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  967.03 HAR    Storage
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  967.031 HARMS    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Wilson Branch - Adult Department  967.031 HA    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description v, 537 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-522) and index.
Contents Manyema -- Atlantic Coast -- Highway of Commerce -- Homeward Bound -- Torrent of Treaties -- Creating the Congos -- Rescuing Emin -- Things Fall Apart -- Concession Companies -- Red Rubber Scandals -- End of Red Rubber.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Africa, Central -- History -- To 1884.
Africa, Central -- Colonization -- Environmental aspects.
Africa, Central -- Colonization -- Social aspects.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
HISTORY / Africa / Central.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Colonization -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst01352477
Africa, Central. (OCoLC)fst01239510
Chronological Term To 1884
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780465028634 (hardcover)
0465028632 (hardcover)
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