Congo : The Epic History of a People

• Autore: Van Reybrouck David
• Pubblicazione: 2024; , : HarperCollins Publishers, , 2014; ©2014
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (722 pages)
• Soggetto topico: Nonfiction; History; Politics
• Soggetto geografico: Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Classificazione: HIS001010POL047000POL061000
• Nota di contenuto: Dedication -- 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
• Sommario/riassunto: Hailed 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Congo
• Titolo autorizzato: Congo
• ISBN: 9781633393806; 1633393801
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910163069503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II