The Congo: Plunder And Resistance - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 1842774840 ISBN 13: 9781842774847

Riassunto

Since well before Henry Morgan Stanley's fabled encounter with David Livingstone on the shore on Lake Tanganyika in the late 19th century and his subsequent collaboration with King Leopold of Belgium in looting the country of its mineral wealth, the Congo's history has been one of collaboration by a minority with, and struggle by the majority against, Western intervention.

Before the colonial period, there were military struggles against annexation. During Belgian rule, charismatic religious figures emerged, promising an end to white domination; copper miners struck for higher wages; and rural workers struggled for survival. During the second half of the 20th century, the Congo's efforts at disentanglement from Belgian rule, the murder of the nationalist leader Patrice Lumumba and the long dictatorship of General Mobutu culminated in one of the bloodiest wars the world has ever seen. 

At the start of a new millennium, this book argues that the West has plundered Africa to its own advantage and that unrestrained global capitalism threatens to remake the entire world, bringing violence and destruction in the name of profit. In this radical history, the authors show not only how the Congo represents and symbolises the continent's long history of subordination, but also how the determined struggle of its people has continued, against the odds, to provide the Congo and the rest of Africa with real hope for the future.

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L'autore:

David Renton is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Sunderland University. Leo Zeilig is a Researcher in the Department of Geography and Earth Science, Brunel University. David Seddon is Professor of Politics & Sociology School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia.
^David Renton is currently a Senior Research Fellow at Sunderland University.Leo Zeilig is a Researcher in the Department of Geography and Earth Science, Brunel University.David Seddon is Professor of Politics & Sociology School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia.

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Book by Renton David Seddon David Zeilig Leo

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• ISBN 10: 1842774840
• ISBN 13: 9781842774847
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida