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A nervous state : violence, remedies, and reverie in colonial Congo / Nancy Rose Hunt.
LIBRA DT657 .H86 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hunt, Nancy Rose, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Colonies--Belgium--History.
- Medicine.
- Colonies.
- Social conditions.
- Medicine--Colonies.
- History.
- Belgium--Colonies--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Social conditions.
- Belgium.
- Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--1908-1960.
- Congo (Democratic Republic).
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Contents:
- Registers of violence
- Maria N'koi
- Emergency time
- Shock talk and flywhisks
- A penal colony, an infertility clinic
- Motion
- Field coda and other endings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-342) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822359463
- 0822359464
- 9780822359654
- 0822359650
- OCLC:
- 911255165
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