LEADER 02534nam 22003853 450 001 9910163069503321 005 20230803214430.0 010 $a1-63339-380-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000001045858 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30059366 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30059366 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001045858 100 $a20220929d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCongo $eThe Epic History of a People 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$a :$cHarperCollins Publishers,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014. 215 $a1 online resource (722 pages) 311 $a0-06-220012-7 311 $a0-06-220013-5 330 $aHailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad),David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, tells the extraordinary story of one of the world's most devastated countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo. Epic in scope yet eminently readable, penetrating and deeply moving, David van Reybrouck's Congo: The Epic History of a People traces the fate of one of the world's most critical, failed nation-states, second only to war-torn Somalia: the Democratic Republic of Congo. Van Reybrouck takes us through several hundred years of history, bringing some of the most dramatic episodes in Congolese history. Here are the people and events that have impinged the Congo's development-from the slave trade to the ivory and rubber booms; from the arrival of Henry Morton Stanley to the tragic regime of King Leopold II; from global indignation to Belgian colonialism; from the struggle for independence to Mobutu's brutal ru? and from the world famous Rumble in the Jungle to the civil war over natural resources that began in 1996 and still rages today. Van Reybrouck interweaves his own family's history with the voices of a diverse range of individuals-charismatic dictators, feuding warlords, child-soldiers, the elderly, female merchant smugglers, and many in the African diaspora of Europe and China-to offer a deeply humane approach to political history, focusing squarely on the Congolese perspective and returning a nation's history to its people. 517 $aCongo 700 $aVan Reybrouck$b David$01258549 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163069503321 996 $aCongo$92916518 997 $aUNINA