Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa - Hardcover
by Robert Harms
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465028634ISBN-10:465028632UPC:9780465028634Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Africa, Expeditions & Discoveries, Colonialism & Post-ColonialismBook Topic:CentralSize:9.30 x 6.00 x 1.80 inchesWeight:1.702Product ID:SCB9M1ERB9
A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa
In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which this happened. Beginning in the 1870s, traders, explorers, and empire builders from Arabia, Europe, and America moved rapidly into the region, where they pioneered a deadly trade in ivory and rubber for Western markets and in enslaved labor for the Indian Ocean rim. Imperial conquest followed close behind.
Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Land of Tears reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world.
In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which this happened. Beginning in the 1870s, traders, explorers, and empire builders from Arabia, Europe, and America moved rapidly into the region, where they pioneered a deadly trade in ivory and rubber for Western markets and in enslaved labor for the Indian Ocean rim. Imperial conquest followed close behind.
Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Land of Tears reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9780465028634ISBN-10:465028632UPC:9780465028634Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Africa, Expeditions & Discoveries, Colonialism & Post-ColonialismBook Topic:CentralSize:9.30 x 6.00 x 1.80 inchesWeight:1.702Product ID:SCB9M1ERB9
Robert Harms is Henry J. Heinz Professor of History and African Studies at Yale University. He is the author of several books on African history, including The Diligent, winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize, the Frederick Douglass Prize, and the J. Russell Major Prize. He lives in Guilford, Connecticut.
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