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The killer trail : a colonial scandal in the heart of Africa / Bertrand Taithe.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Taithe, Bertrand, author.
Series:
Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Voulet, Paul, 1866-1899.
Voulet, Paul.
Chanoine, Julien, 1870-1899.
Chanoine, Julien.
Mission Afrique centrale.
French--Africa, Central--History--19th century.
French.
Atrocities--Africa, Central--History--19th century.
Atrocities.
Scandals--France--History--19th century.
Scandals.
Africa, Central--Colonization.
Africa, Central.
Africa, Central--Discovery and exploration--French.
Africa, Central--Race relations--History--19th century.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (337 p.)
Place of Publication:
Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
The story of the Voulet-Chanoine mission to central Africa in 1898-9, one of the most notorious atrocities to take place during the European 'scramble for Africa' and a highly revealing portrait of European colonial brutality at its most extreme.
Contents:
Dying for French Soudan
Civilization and Africa
Privateering for France
Officers and gentlemen?
Slaving and African warfare
Conspiracy theories and scandals
From The heart of darkness to twenty-first-century guilt
Conclusion : traumatized perpetrators?
Notes:
Previously issued in print: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
ISBN:
1-383-03652-7
1-282-38339-6
9786612383397
0-19-157155-5
OCLC:
654776907

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