African Perspectives
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Africa
ISBN :
The Casement Report
Author : Roger Casement
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734043476
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Casement Report by Roger Casement
The United States and Africa
Author : Peter Duignan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 45,80 MB
Release : 1987-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521335713
Book Description
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.
Presbyterian Reformers in Central Africa
Author : Robert Benedetto
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004102392
Book Description
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.
The Fall of the Congo Arabs
Author : Sidney Langford Hinde
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
ISBN :
Book Description
The Congo State
Author : Demetrius Charles Boulger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 45,96 MB
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1108050697
Book Description
This 1898 publication documents the controversial colonial history of the Congo Free State during the reign of King Leopold II.
Bismarck, Europe, and Africa
Author : Stig Förster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
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.
Culture History of the Basongye
Author : Alan P. Merriam
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
Americans in Africa, 1865-1900
Author : Clarence Clemens Clendenen
Publisher : Stanford, Calif., Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Book Description
The Guggenheims
Author : John H. Davis
Publisher : SP Books
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 1989-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781561713516
Book Description
This definitive portrait of one of America's wealthiest, most influential dynasties traces their dynamic and often tragic lives. 'The Guggenheims': Meyer Guggenheim, the penniless immigrant whose genius for business and penchant for taking risks made the family fortune; Solomon Guggenheim, the pioneer art patron who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build the revolutionary piece of modern architecture, The Guggenheim Museum, opening the doors of contemporary art to America; Peggy Guggenheim, self-styled 'first liberated woman' who built a Venetian palace for her art but lost both her daughter and her lover to suicide; Daniel & Harry Guggenheim, whose financial interest in rocket science supported the Apollo moon landing and the growth of America's modern space program; Roger W Straus Jr, grandson of Daniel Guggenheim, who became America's foremost literary publisher, bringing numerous Nobel Prize Winning authors to the world's bookshelves. Updated with the latest from the heirs to the Guggenheim dynasty and illustrated throughout with rare family photos, John Davis has chronicled the saga of one of America's first families of philanthropy.
