Travel Writing and Atrocities: Eyewitness Accounts of Colonialism in the Congo, Angola, and the Putumayo (Routledge Research in Travel Writing) - Couverture souple

Burroughs, Robert

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ISBN 10 : 1138868892 ISBN 13 : 9781138868892

Editeur : Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138868892
• ISBN 13: 9781138868892
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BOOKS etc..; cs@booksetc.co.uk; ; BOOKS etc.; Aldershot; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: non disponible