Topic: Modern Euro history paper 6 In the attached documents, you will find material on Cecil Rhodes, Henry Morton Stanley and King Leopold of Belgium. All three men believed that European control of Africa was inevitable and that their own states (Britain for Rhodes and Stanley, Belgium for Leopold) were inherently superior to any African […]
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Discuss In Adam Hochschild’s book, King Leopold’s Ghost, we read about colonial extraction in the Congo by Belgium from 1885 until 1960. Over that period, the Belgians were active in a number of industries. How did the character of the resource being exploited and the international industry around it – first ivory, then rubber– affect the character of the colonial enterprise and what Bernstein would call the “labor regime” in the Congo? How were the systems of economic exploitation and the social/cultural impacts similar and/or different?
Topic: King Leopold’s Ghost Paper details: In Adam Hochschild’s book, King Leopold’s Ghost, we read about colonial extraction in the Congo by Belgium from 1885 until 1960. Over that period, the Belgians were active in a number of industries. How did the character of the resource being exploited and the international industry around it – […]
