Belgian congo colonialism (3 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 95 pages. Estelle Cohen "Medical Debates on Woman's 'Nature' in England around 1700" / Waltraud Ernst "Psychiatry and Colonialism: Lunatic Asylums in British India 1800-1858" / David Arnold "Smallpox and Colonial Medicine in India" / Martinez Lyons "Sleeping Sickness and Public Health in the Belgian Congo, 1903-1930" (BT#38).…

Belgian Congo colonial photo archive, circa 1950s, documenting how the Belgian state presented the colony to Western viewers through coffee production, planned workers' housing, road building, urban commerce, and managed landscape. Issued through the Belgian Government Information Center in New York, the photographs translate colonial rule into a sequence of alluring scenes such as African labor inside an industrial coffee facility, a rural workers' village at Bosulo, automobiles and commercial buildings in Léopoldville, road infrastructure through forest, and savannah country in the Kibali Ituri district. The group belongs to the late colonial period when Belgium framed the Congo as a development project while its economy remained structured around extractive agriculture, mineral wealth, compulsory labor histories, and racial hierarchy. Photo archive of five silver gelatin photographs, New York: Belgian Government Information Center: Belgium and Belgian Congo, each 5 x 7 inches, Belgian Congo, circa 1950s. The photos show workers handling sacks in a coffee facility; a thatched workers' village with a central road, palms, and surrounding hills, captioned "Workers' village - Bosulo"; a busy Léopoldville commercial district filled with cars, pedestrians, bicycles, storefronts, and hotel signage, captioned "Commercial center at Leopoldville, city life vol. 10"; open savannah in the Kibali Ituri district, captioned in handwritten script "In the Kibali Ituri district, at a height of about 3,000 feet there is a plain covered with savannah. Vegetation and countryside, vol. 3"; and a forest road captioned "Vegetatikon and Countryside vol. 3 / Road through the jungle." Belgium ruled the Congo from 1908, after the international scandal of King Leopold II's Congo Free State, until Congolese independence in 1960. By the mid twentieth century, official Belgian publicity emphasized welfare, labor housing, roads, agriculture, and urban modernization, recasting colonial control as technical improvement and economic order. These images present coffee production, labor housing, urban commerce, and road construction as evidence of Belgian economic development in the Congo. For native Congolese, that industrial system meant wage labor in export agriculture and processing, residence in employer or state planned settlements, movement through colonial transport networks, and participation in an urban economy controlled by Belgian administration and business. Light surface wear and scattered verso stamps and annotations; images remain clean and clear. Overall very good condition. An archive of Congolese labor and land as the basis of late colonial industry in Belgian Congo.…

Belgian Congo photo archive documenting colonialism and segregated settlement in Paulis, Jadotville, and at Kiubo Falls in 1946-1947, while Belgian rule expanded displacing Congolese communities from political power and control over local resources. Made by an unidentified traveler or colonial observer, the group moves between industrial sites, river traffic, town streets, waterfalls, village compounds, and posed encounters with Congolese residents, placing daily life beside the infrastructure of empire. Jadotville, in Katanga, had been built within the orbit of Union Minière du Haut-Katanga and the copper economy that tied the Congo to European industry; Paulis belonged to the northeastern colonial administrative network that extended surveillance, mission activity, and commercial penetration into local societies. By the later 1940s, these systems were producing wealth for Belgium and foreign markets through forced and controlled labor regimes. Photo archive of 36 black and white silver gelatin photographs, various sizes, ranging from 2.5" x 3.5" to 5" x 7", Belgian Congo, 1946-1947. Nine photographs are identified to the Paulis region in 1946, including versos inscribed in French with "Habitations Européens à Paulis," "Pavillon de l'hotel," and "Le Kigoma sur le fleuve." These images show European-style houses set among palms, a large riverside or lakeside steamer, a broad colonial street with automobiles and low commercial buildings, thatched structures, and Congolese figures posed near village compounds and along a tree-lined road. The remaining photographs, from Jadotville and Kiubo Falls in 1947, include multiple views of the falls from overlooks and near the waterline, several repeated compositions of cascades and riverbanks, a dense electrical installation with transformers and steel framing, public crowd scenes, dugout canoes on calm water, groups standing beside temporary camp structures, and additional views of thatched settlements, large shade trees, and Congolese men, women, and children positioned before houses or in open clearings. Several photographs set European-built environments against Congolese dwellings and occupied landscapes, making the colonial dichotomy apparent within this grouping. Waterfalls, river steamers, electric infrastructure, and ordered streets mark the channels through which copper, labor, and administrative authority moved outward to Belgian and international markets, while the photographs of Congolese settlements and residents show the populations who bore that reorganization of land and economy. In the late colonial Congo, extraction and transport depended on African labor under coercive conditions, and urban growth in places such as Jadotville advanced through racially unequal housing, wage structures, and civic access, leaving Congolese people concentrated in subordinate quarters or rural zones even when their work sustained the entire system. Light wear and occasional creasing; several versos inscribed in French; overall very good condition. An intimate look into Belgian colonial rule at the point where industrial wealth, infrastructure, and local displacement met on the ground. Signed.…