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

• मुख्य लेखक: Henriet, Benoît (auth)
• स्वरूप: इलेक्ट्रोनिक पुस्तक अध्याय
• भाषा: अंग्रेज़ी
• प्रकाशित: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2021
• श्रृंखला: Africa in Global History 3
• विषय: African history; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Capitalism; Colonialism; Palm oil; Unilever
• ऑनलाइन पहुंच: 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...