African and Middle East Collections. By P. Duignan, G. Rentz, K. Fung [and] M. Nabti
Author : P. Duignan
Publisher :
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : P. Duignan
Publisher :
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 1971
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 19,61 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Africa
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Author : Roger Casement
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734043476
Reproduction of the original: The Casement Report by Roger Casement
Author : Peter Duignan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 1987-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521335713
Tracing the reciprocal relationship between Africa and North America from the seventeenth-century slave trade onwards, two leading authorities in the field provide a major revision to traditional colonial African history as well as to US history. Departing from prior accounts that tended to emphasise only the role of the colonial metropoles in developing Africa, the authors show how American pioneers - missionaries, traders, prospectors, miners, engineers, scientists, and others - have helped to shape Africa. They also point to the equally important impact made by Africa on the United States through trade and immigration, and through the influence of Africans on the arts and agriculture, among other facets of American life. In a study of exceptionally broad scope, the authors devote particular attention to the development of United States policy regarding Africa, the impact of private enterprise, the operation of governmental lobbies, the administration of foreign aid, and the involvement of Africa in the Cold War.
Author : Andrew C A Jampoler
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1612512704
Lauded for his ability to tell compelling, true adventure stories, award-winning author Andrew C.A. Jampoler has turned his attention this time to a young American naval officer on a mission up the Congo River in May 1885. Lt. Emory Taunt was ordered to explore as much of the river as possible and report on opportunities for Americans in the potentially rich African marketplace. A little more than five years later, Taunt, 39, was buried near the place he had first come ashore in Africa. His personal demons and the Congo’s lethal fevers had killed him. In 2011, to better understand what happened, Jampoler retraced Taunt’s expedition in an outboard motorboat. Striking photographs from the author’s trip are included to lend a visual dimension to the original journey. Readers join Taunt in his exploration of some 1400 miles of river and follow him on two additional assignments. A commercial venture to collect elephant ivory in the river’s great basin and an appointment as the U.S. State Department’s first resident diplomat in Boma, capital of King Leopold II’s Congo Free State, are filled with promise. But instead of becoming rich and famous, he died alone, bankrupt, and disgraced. Jampoler’s account of what went so dreadfully wrong is both thrilling and tragic. He provides not only a fascinating look at Taunt’s brief and extraordinary life, but also a glimpse of the role the United States played in the birth of the Congo nation, and the increasingly awkward position Washington found itself as stories of atrocities against the natives began to leak out.
Author : Robert Benedetto
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004102392
This volume contains 123 documents which illustrate the early history of the American Presbyterian Congo Mission and its struggle for human rights in the Congo from 1890 to 1918. The documents, many of which have never previously been published, are crucial to a full understanding of both the work of the Presbyterian Mission and its impact on the social, political, and religious life of the Congo. The book is divided into four parts. Part One documents the founding and early history of the Presbyterian Mission from 1890 to 1898. Part Two documents the deterioration of social conditions in the Congo under King Leopold, and the reform campaigns initiated by the American Mission in Britain and the United States. Part Three consists of documents related to the 1909 libel trial of William M. Morrison and William H. Sheppard, the principal leaders of the American Mission. Part Four documents the Mission's reaction to continuing human rights abuses, particularly religious persecution, under Belgian rule to 1918. The documents - translated chiefly by Winifred K. Vass - are annotated and the volume contains an introduction and an index.
Author : Sidney Langford Hinde
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
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Author : Demetrius Charles Boulger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1108050697
This 1898 publication documents the controversial colonial history of the Congo Free State during the reign of King Leopold II.
Author : Stig Förster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 28,63 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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The first comprehensive account of the Berlin Africa Conference of 1884 and 1885, this book looks at the mixed motives behind the partition of Africa into colonial monopolies. Historians from both Africa and Europe interpret this unique moment in Euro-Africa relations, looking at the origins of the meeting, the priorities of negotiators, economic interests, missionary aspirations, and national rivalries.
Author : Alan P. Merriam
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN :