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The Congo : plunder and resistance / David Renton, David Seddon, & Leo Zeilig

Author
Renton, Dave, 1972-
Published
London, England : Zed Books, ©2007.
[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (243 pages) : map
Additional Creators
Seddon, David and Zeilig, Leo
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Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to individual document purchasers.
Contents
Missionaries and traders -- Miners and planters -- Rebels and generals -- The great dictator -- The failed 'transition' -- Speculators and theives.
Summary
This book traces the story of the Congo from the unleashing of King Leopard's fury across the region in the 19th century, to the Western sponsored murder of Patrice Lumumba in 1961 to the war that has ravaged the country since 1997. It is an immensely readable and radical introduction to the Congo that pays attention to the importance of economic production for social organization throughout the country's recent history. It also argues that the nature of global capitalism, far from always leading to modernization, can in fact mean the expansion of private capital accompanied by social collapse. As for the future, the hope is that another politics will emerge from the resistance of ordinary Congolese to imperialist slaughter and the post-independence Mobutu dictatorship. -- Publisher's Description.
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ISBN
9781350222991 (ebook)
9781848130906 (PDF)
9781842774847 (print)
1842774840 (print)
9781842774854 (paperback)
1842774859 (paperback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index.
Other Forms
Also published in print.
Technical Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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