LEADER 03956nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910813669403321 005 20240418053448.0 010 $a1-282-55528-6 010 $a9786612555282 010 $a0-299-23643-9 035 $a(CKB)2560000000014295 035 $a(OCoLC)644670657 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10375886 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000412647 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11249665 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000412647 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10367079 035 $a(PQKB)10376796 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444987 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse11987 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444987 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10375886 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL255528 035 $a(PPN)23406479X 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000014295 100 $a20091006d2010 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeing colonized$b[electronic resource] $ethe Kuba experience in rural Congo, 1880-1960 /$fJan Vansina 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison, Wis. $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (357 p.) 225 1 $aAfrica and the diaspora: history, politics, culture 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-299-23644-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCongo: becoming a colony -- The colonial relationship -- Incidental conquest -- Company rule and its consequences -- Were the Kuba nearly wiped out? -- Fifty years of Belgian rule: an overview -- A kingdom preserved -- Village life: 1911-1950s -- In pursuit of harmony -- Visions for a different future -- Toward a new world -- Conclusion: the experience of being colonized. 330 $aWhat was it like to be colonized by foreigners? Highlighting a region in central Congo, in the center of sub-Saharan Africa, Being Colonized places Africans at the heart of the story. In a richly textured history that will appeal to general readers and students as well as to scholars, the distinguished historian Jan Vansina offers not just accounts of colonial administrators, missionaries, and traders, but the varied voices of a colonized people. Vansina uncovers the history revealed in local news, customs, gossip, and even dreams, as related by African villagers through archival documents, material culture, and oral interviews. 330 $aVansina?s case study of the colonial experience is the realm of Kuba, a kingdom in Congo about the size of New Jersey?and two-thirds the size of its colonial master, Belgium. The experience of its inhabitants is the story of colonialism, from its earliest manifestations to its tumultuous end. What happened in Kuba happened to varying degrees throughout Africa and other colonized regions: racism, economic exploitation, indirect rule, Christian conversion, modernization, disease and healing, and transformations in gender relations. The Kuba, like others, took their own active part in history, responding to the changes and calamities that colonization set in motion. Vansina follows the region?s inhabitants from the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, when a new elite emerged on the eve of Congo?s dramatic passage to independence. 410 0$aAfrica and the diaspora. 606 $aKuba (African people)$zCongo (Democratic Republic)$xSocial conditions 607 $aCongo (Democratic Republic)$xColonization 607 $aCongo (Democratic Republic)$xHistory$yTo 1908 607 $aCongo (Democratic Republic)$xHistory$y1908-1960 615 0$aKuba (African people)$xSocial conditions. 676 $a305.896/397 700 $aVansina$b Jan$0143274 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813669403321 996 $aBeing colonized$94050633 997 $aUNINA