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Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa

Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa

Harms, Robert

Hardcover

African HistoryExplorationGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 0465028632
ISBN13: 9780465028634
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Dec 3 2019
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.70
Height: 1.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa
In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which this happened. Beginning in the 1870s, traders, explorers, and empire builders from Arabia, Europe, and America moved rapidly into the region, where they pioneered a deadly trade in ivory and rubber for Western markets and in enslaved labor for the Indian Ocean rim. Imperial conquest followed close behind.

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