Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780465028634
Description: "In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which the heart of Africa was utterly transformed in the nineteenth century and the rainforest of the Congo River basin became one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Harms reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world"--