This book shows that in Asia and Europe, 17th- early 20th century, the history of "free" labour is linked to that of coerced labour. Circulation of models, peoples, goods and institutions, and long-term growth contributed to increase coercion.
Captivity, cannibalism, the circus, trading in bodies, prostitution- these subjects are all examined in Body Trade, the first scholarly book to explore postcolonial issues in relation to the body in Australia and the Pacific. In this fascinating analysis, a team of international…
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
At the turn of the century, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried out a brutal plundering of the territory surrounding the Congo River. Ultimately slashed its population by ten million, he still managed to shrewdly cultivate his reputa…
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ult…
"At the turn of the century, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried our a brutal plundering of the territory surrounding the Congo River. Ultimately splashing the area's population by ten million, he still managed to shrewdly cultivate …
Documents the plundering of the territory.
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ult…
In the late 1890s Edmund Morel, a shipping company official working in Antwerp, noticed something suspicious. It was enough to set him on an investigation in which he almost single-handedly made the Congo's slave-labour regime and the lives it took into a cause which would unite…
"In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ul…
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ult…