The Killer Trail
A Colonial Scandal in the Heart of Africa
(Sprache: Englisch)
Readership: All those interested in colonial history, the history of European rule in Africa, imperial rivalry in the nineteenth and twentieth century, and the 'scramble for Africa'.
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Readership: All those interested in colonial history, the history of European rule in Africa, imperial rivalry in the nineteenth and twentieth century, and the 'scramble for Africa'.
Klappentext zu „The Killer Trail “
The story of the Voulet-Chanoine mission to central Africa in 1898-9, one of the most notorious atrocities to take place during the European 'scramble for Africa' and a highly revealing portrait of European colonial brutality at its most extreme.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Killer Trail “
1. Dying for French Soudan ; 2. Civilization and Africa ; 3. Privateering for France ; 4. Manly Soldiers ; 5. Slaving and African warfare ; 6. War in the Age of the Dreyfus Affair ; 7. Remembering Voulet and Chanoine: from the Heart of Darkness to 21st Century Guilt ; 8. Traumatized Perpetrators?
Autoren-Porträt von Bertrand Taithe
Bertrand Taithe is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Manchester. He has published extensively on war, medicine and war, and humanitarianism, including most recently Benjamin's Arcades: An Unguided Tour, and is an editor of the European Review of History.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Bertrand Taithe
- 2009, 304 Seiten, Maße: 13,5 x 19,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199231214
- ISBN-13: 9780199231218
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „The Killer Trail “
Taithe is a sure guide. LRB11/03/10 This book is really enjoyable. Joanna Lewis, Times Higher Education Taithe has done a remarkable job. Joe Cushnan, Tribune It is not often that a book comes along...and says something genuinely new and important about imperial excess. Saul David, Literary Review
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