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

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...

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Main Author: Henriet, Benoît (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter 2021
Series:Africa in Global History 3
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