Colonial Impotence Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911-1940)

• Tác giả: Benoît Henriet
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-3110648782
• ISBN-13: 978-3110652734
• Thông tin xuất bản: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2021
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (202 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 373301
• Chủ đề: 1. Capitalism; 2. Colonialism; 3. Palm oil; 4. African history; 5. Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900

Tóm tắt

This book offers a historical anthropology of the Leverville concession, the largest palm oil exploitation in Belgian Congo, and one of Unilever's main plants outside of Europe, between 1911 and 1940. It provides new understandings of the joint experience of colonialism and capitalism. As a focused case study this book offers a unique take on the global history of the early 20th century.