LEADER 00940nam a2200277 i 4500 001 991000816899707536 005 20020506124642.0 008 960308s1976 ne ||| | eng 035 $ab10133720-39ule_inst 035 $aLE00637330$9ExL 040 $aDip.to Fisica$bita 084 $a52.9.3 084 $a510.62 084 $a551.5'01'82 084 $aQC874.5 100 1 $aEssenwanger, O.$0461123 245 10$aApplied statistics in atmospheric science /$cO. Essenwanger 260 $aAmsterdam ; New York :$bElsevier,$c1976 300 $av. ;$c25 cm. 650 4$aAtmosphere$xStatistical methods 907 $a.b10133720$b21-09-06$c27-06-02 912 $a991000816899707536 945 $aLE006 52.9.3 ESS$g1$i2006000097246$lle006$o-$pE0.00$q-$rl$s- $t0$u1$v0$w1$x0$y.i10157293$z27-06-02 996 $aApplied statistics in atmospheric science$9185471 997 $aUNISALENTO 998 $ale006$b01-01-96$cm$da $e-$feng$gne $h0$i1 LEADER 04348nam 22005533 450 001 9910163069503321 005 20241107095756.0 010 $a9781633393806 010 $a1633393801 035 $a(CKB)3710000001045858 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30059366 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30059366 035 $a(ODN)ODN0001371541 035 $a(Exl-AI)30059366 035 $a(OCoLC)1346359893 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 $d2024 210 1$a :$cHarperCollins Publishers,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014. 215 $a1 online resource (722 pages) 311 08$a0-06-220013-5 311 08$a0-06-220012-7 327 $aDedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. New Spirits: Central Africa Draws the Attention of East and West | 1870?1885 -- 2. ?Diabolical Filth?: Congo Under Leopold II | 1885?1908 -- 3. The Belgians Set us Free: The Early Years of the Colonial Regime | 1908?1921 -- 4. In the Stranglehold of Fear: Growing Unrest and Mutual Suspicion in Peacetime | 1921?1940 -- 5. The Red Hour of the Kickoff: The War and the Deceptive Calm That Followed | 1940?1955 -- 6. Soon to be Ours: A Belated Decolonization, a Sudden Independence | 1955?1960 -- 7. A Thursday in June -- 8. The Struggle for the Throne: The Turbulent Years of the First Republic | 1960?1965 -- 9. The Electric Years: Mobutu Gets Down to Business | 1965?1975 -- 10. Toujours Servir: A Marshal?s Madness | 1975?1990 -- 11. The Death Throes: Democratic Opposition and Military Confrontation | 1990?1997 -- 12. Compassion, What is That?: The Great War of Africa | 1997?2002 -- 13. La Bière Et La Prière (Suds and Sanctity): New Players in a Wasted Land | 2002?2006 -- 14. The Recess: Hope and Despair in a Newborn Democracy | 2006?2010 -- 15. WWW.COM -- Acknowledgments -- Sources -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author -- Also by David Van Reybrouck -- Credits -- Copyright$7Generated by AI. 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 606 $aNonfiction$2OverDrive 606 $aHistory$2OverDrive 606 $aPolitics$2OverDrive 607 $aDemocratic Republic of the Congo$7Generated by AI 615 17$aNonfiction. 615 7$aHistory. 615 7$aPolitics. 686 $aHIS001010$aPOL047000$aPOL061000$2bisacsh 700 $aVan Reybrouck$b David$01258549 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910163069503321 996 $aCongo$92916518 997 $aUNINA