The Congo Free State and the New Imperialism

The Congo Free State and the New Imperialism

Author: Kevin Grant

Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education

Published: 2016-09-02

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1319054153

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This book introduces students to the history of the Congolese peoples and the Congo Free State, ruled by King Leopold II of Belgium between 1885 and 1908. It illuminates central issues in the study of the era of the "new imperialism" and challenges students to analyze a variety of different kinds of sources in building their own historical arguments about the period. The introduction provides an overview of the Congolese peoples, the environment in which they lived, and the process through which the Congo Free State was established and developed. The documents invite students to explore the history of the Congo Free State through speeches, international treaties, oral histories, investigative depositions on atrocities, visual texts, official and private correspondence, parliamentary debates, and published exposés. Document headnotes, a chronology, and analytical questions help students to place the Congo Free State in the context of not only the new imperialism but also its larger global context.


The International Beginnings of the Congo Free State

The International Beginnings of the Congo Free State

Author: Jesse Siddall Reeves

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press

Published: 1894

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13:

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Original ed. issued as no. 11-12 of Institutional and economic history, which forms the 12th series of Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science.


King Leopold's Ghost

King Leopold's Ghost

Author: Adam Hochschild

Publisher: Picador

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 1760785202

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With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.


King Leopold's Congo and the "Scramble for Africa"

King Leopold's Congo and the

Author: Michael A. Rutz

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 2018-03-01

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 1624666582

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"King Leopold of Belgium's exploits up the Congo River in the 1880s were central to the European partitioning of the African continent. The Congo Free State, Leopold's private colony, was a unique political construct that opened the door to the savage exploitation of the Congo's natural and human resources by international corporations. The resulting 'red rubber' scandal—which laid bare a fundamental contradiction between the European propagation of free labor and 'civilization' and colonial governments' acceptance of violence and coercion for productivity's sake—haunted all imperial powers in Africa. Featuring a clever introduction and judicious collection of documents, Michael Rutz's book neatly captures the drama of one king's quest to build an empire in Central Africa—a quest that began in the name of anti-slavery and free trade and ended in the brutal exploitation of human lives. This volume is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in the history of colonial rule in Africa." —Jelmer Vos, University of Glasgow


King Leopold's Soliloquy

King Leopold's Soliloquy

Author: Mark Twain

Publisher: LeftWord Books

Published: 2020-03

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 818749655X

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Dear, dear, when the soft-hearts get hold of thing like that missionary's contribution they completely lose their tranquility they speak profanely and reproach Heaven for allowing such a find to live. Meaning me . They think it irregular. They go shuddering around, brooding over the reduction of that Congo population from 25,000,000 to 15,000,000 in the twenty years of my administration; then they burst out and call me the King with Ten Million Murders on his Soul. They call me a 'record'. - From King Leopold's Soliloquy


Humanitarianism and Human Rights

Humanitarianism and Human Rights

Author: Michael N. Barnett

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1108836798

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Explores the fluctuating relationship between human rights and humanitarianism and the changing nature of the politics and practices of humanity.


Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980

Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980

Author: Guy Vanthemsche

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-04-30

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 0521194210

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This book explains how and why Belgium, a small but influential European country, was changed through its colonial activities in the Congo, from the first expeditions in 1880 to the Mobutu regime in the 1980s. Belgian politics, diplomacy, economic activity and culture were influenced by the imperial experience. Belgium and the Congo, 1885-1980 yields a better understanding of the Congo's past and present.


The Congo State

The Congo State

Author: Demetrius Charles Boulger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-06-07

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 1108050697

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This 1898 publication documents the controversial colonial history of the Congo Free State during the reign of King Leopold II.


The Casement Report

The Casement Report

Author: Roger Casement

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2018-09-21

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 3734043476

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Reproduction of the original: The Casement Report by Roger Casement