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The Colonial Occupation of Katanga by Giacomo Macola, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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The Colonial Occupation of Katanga by Giacomo Macola, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
The Colonial Occupation of Katanga by Giacomo Macola, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Giacomo Macola

The Colonial Occupation of Katanga by Giacomo Macola, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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The Colonial Occupation of Katanga consists of a translated and richly annotated edition of the personal correspondence of Lieutenant (later Captain) Clement Brasseur, the military officer in charge of Lofoi, the first post of the Congo Free State in Katanga. The letters date from September1893, the month of his arrival in the region, and continue up to 9 November 1897, the day before his career of conquest and subjugation came to a violent end outside the trader Kiwala's fortified camp on the Luapula River. All of the seventeen long letters included in the volume are addressed toBrasseur's elder brother, Desire, a fellow military officer; most of them take the form of regularly updated journals and travelogues. Brasseur's dense personal correspondence describes in exceptional detail both his day-to-day activities and administrative determinations and the numerous military operations that he and/or his local allies undertook with a view to impressing upon Katangese communities the need to comply withinstructions relating to taxation in kind and labour. The striking candidness and directness of the records presented in this edition challenge top-down understandings of the violent workings of the Congo Free State, cast unprecedented light on early colonial state-building in Katanga and show thatthe latter process was deeply informed by African strategies and interests. These themes are systematically pursued in the volume's extensive introduction, which advances the idea that the Congo Free State is best understood as a continuation of the nineteenth-century warlord order in CentralAfrica, rather than the embodiment of a 'modern' colonial project. | The Colonial Occupation of Katanga by Giacomo Macola, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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