In the forest of no joy: the Congo-Océan railroad and the tragedy of French colonialism
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New York, NY
W. W. Norton & Company
[2021]
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| Abstract: | "The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ostensibly democratic nation whose motto read "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," but liberal ideals were savaged by a cruelly indifferent administrative state. Native workers were forcibly conscripted and suffered under hellish conditions-hunger, disease, rampant physical abuse-that resulted in at least 20,000-25,000 deaths. In the Forest of No Joy captures in vivid detail the experiences of the men, women, and children who toiled on the railroad, and forces a reassessment of the moral relationship between modern industrialized empires and what could be called global humanitarian impulses-the desire to improve the lives of people outside of Europe"-- |
| Umfang: | 368 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte |
| ISBN: | 9780393541014 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS List of Illustrations xiii Introduction: Of Thousands Gone I 1 Remaking the Congo 23 2 The Right Man for the Job 3 The Pacha Prelude 52 70 4 Manhunt 93 5 “The Mayombe Doesn’t Want Us” II4 6 Tropic of Cruelty 7 Disobedience and Desertion 145 172 8 The Many Ways of Death 188 9 A Bureaucrats Humanitarianism 214 10 Silencing Critics 11 The Victory and the Forgetting 239 256 12 The Violence of Empire 276 Acknowledgments Յ07 List ofAbbreviations 311 Notes 3D Illustration Credits 357 Index 359
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