Colonial Impotence: Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911–1940) 9783110652734, 9783110648782, 9783111257433

Colonial Impotence: Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911–1940) 9783110652734, 9783110648782, 9783111257433

In Colonial Impotence, Benoît Henriet studies the violent contradictions of colonial rule from the standpoint of the Lev

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Colonial Impotence 9783110648782, 9783110652734, 9783110649093

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Rainforest Capitalism: Power and Masculinity in a Congolese Timber Concession 9781478022473

Thomas Hendriks examines the rowdy environment of industrial timber production in the Democratic Republic of the Congo t

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A Violence and Emancipation in Colonial Ideology 9789629375492, 9789629374495

Are there ethics justifying anti-colonial violence? How and why did the violence and visions of nationalist movements be

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Colonial Virtue: The Mobility of Temperance in Renaissance England 9781442696426

Beautifully written and deeply engaging, Colonial Virtue also models an expansive methodology for literary studies throu

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Authority and Violence in Colonial Bengal : 1800-1860 9788185635316, 8185635315

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Jadavpur University).

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Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India 0192893939, 9780192893932

Focusing on India between the early nineteenth century and the First World War, Colonial Terror explores the centrality

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A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo 9780822375241

Nancy Rose Hunt tells the affective history of the convergence of biopolitics and colonial violence in the Belgian Congo

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Honourable Intentions?: Violence and Virtue in Australian and Cape Colonies, c 1750 to 1850. 9781317269397, 131726939X

Honourable Intentions? compares the significance and strategic use of ‘honour’ in two colonial societies, the Cape Colon

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A Nervous State: Violence, Remedies, and Reverie in Colonial Congo 9780822359463, 0822359464

In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold’s Congo Free State. Di

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