Webster's Practical Dictionary


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Excerpt from Webster's Practical Dictionary: A Practical Dictionary of the English Language, Giving the Correct Spelling, Pronunciation, and Definitions of Words, With an Appendix Containing Various Useful Tables Ignoble, covering 13 Words, and occupying Of a column. Madame, covering 20 words, and occupying of 7. Column. Immaculate, covering 132 words, and occupying 3 columns. Inability, covering 415 words, and occupying 10} columns. Irrational, covering 34 words, and occupying 15 columns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
















Congoism


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To justify the plundering of today's Democratic Republic of the Congo, U.S. intellectual elites have continuously produced dismissive Congo discourses. Tracing these discourses in great depth and breadth for the first time, Johnny Van Hove shows how U.S. intellectuals (and their influential European counterparts) have been using the Congo in similar fashions for their own goals. Analyzing intellectuals as diverse as W.E.B. Du Bois, Joseph Conrad, and David Van Reybrouck, the book offers a theorization of Central West Africa, a case study of normalized narratives on the "Other", and a stirring wake up call for all contemporary writers on international history and politics.