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