Colonial Impotence Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911-1940)

• Main Author: Henriet, Benoît (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2021
• Series: Africa in Global History 3
• Subjects: African history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Capitalism; Colonialism; Palm oil; Unilever
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book offers a historical anthropology of the Leverville concession, the largest palm oil exploitation in Belgian Congo, and one of Unilever's main plants outside of Europe, between 1911 and 1940. It provides new understandings of the joint experience of colonialism and capitalism. As a foc...