Robert M Burroughs

Travel Writing and Atrocities

Eyewitness Accounts of Colonialism in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Looking at travelogues, ethnographic monographs, consular reports, diaries and letters, sketches, photography and more, Burroughs examines eyewitness travel reports of atrocities committed in European-funded slave regimes in the Congo Free State, Portuguese West Africa, and the Putumayo district of the Amazon rainforest during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. As Burroughs articulates, as well as bringing home to readers ongoing brutalities, eyewitness narratives importantly contributed to debates on humanitarianism, trade, colonialism, and race and racial prejudice in late Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415992381
• ISBN-10: 0415992389
• Artikelnr.: 29923737

Autorenporträt

Dr. Robert Burroughs is Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Abbreviations Note on Place Names Acknowledgments
Introduction 1: Unspeakable Voyage: Explorers and Colonialists in the Congo
2: '[T]he subtle consul': Roger Casement's Congo Report 3: In Transit and
Transition: Congo Missionaries 4: Cocoa and Antislavery: Henry W.
Nevinson's A Modern Slavery 5: England's Eyewitness: Casement's Amazon
Journal Conclusion Appendix: Ikembe's Letter to Rev. Joseph Clark Notes
Bibliography Index