TY  - BOOK
AU  - Renton,Dave
AU  - Seddon,David
AU  - Zeilig,Leo
TI  - The Congo: plunder and resistance 
SN  - 9781842774847
AV  - DT653.3 .R46 2007
U1  - 967.51 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London, New York, New York
PB  - Zed Books, Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Pillage
KW  - Congo (Democratic Republic)
KW  - History
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Mines and mineral resources
KW  - Government, Resistance to
KW  - fast
KW  - Colonial influence
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Politieke aspecten
KW  - gtt
KW  - Sociale situatie
KW  - Plundringar
KW  - historia
KW  - Kongo (Kinshasa)
KW  - sao
KW  - Konga (Kinshasa)
KW  - politik och f�orvaltning
KW  - Kapitalism
KW  - politiska aspekter
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - History, Military
KW  - ekonomiska f�orh�allanden
KW  - Military history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index; Missionaries and traders -- Miners and planters -- Rebels and generals -- The great dictator -- The failed 'transition' -- Speculators and theives
N2  - This book traces the story of the Congo from the unleashing of King Leopard's fury across the region in the 19th century, to the Western sponsored murder of Patrice Lumumba in 1961 to the war that has ravaged the country since 1997. It is an immensely readable and radical introduction to the Congo that pays attention to the importance of economic production for social organization throughout the country's recent history. It also argues that the nature of global capitalism, far from always leading to modernization, can in fact mean the expansion of private capital accompanied by social collapse. As for the future, the hope is that another politics will emerge from the resistance of ordinary Congolese to imperialist slaughter and the post-independence Mobutu dictatorship. -- Publisher's Description
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2006045279-t.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2006045279-b.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0659/2006045279-d.html
ER  -