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Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913
Jelmer Vos
其他書名
The Breakdown of a Moral Order
出版
University of Wisconsin Pres
, 2015
主題
History / General
History / Africa / General
History / Africa / Central
Political Science / Comparative Politics
Political Science / International Relations / General
Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
Political Science / World / African
Religion / Christianity / Catholic
Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions
Social Science / Black Studies (Global)
Technology & Engineering / Technical & Manufacturing Industries & Trades
ISBN
0299306240
9780299306243
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=u8auCgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
This richly documented account of the arrival of rubber traders, new Christian missionaries, and the Portuguese colonial state in the Kongo realm is told from the perspective of the kingdom's inhabitants. Jelmer Vos shows that both Africans and Europeans were able to forward differing social, political, and economic agendas as Kongo's sacred city of São Salvador became a vital site for the expansion of European imperialism in Central Africa. Kongo people, he argues, built on the kingdom's long familiarity with Atlantic commerce and cultures to become avid intermediaries in a new system of colonial trade and mission schools.
Vos underlines that Kongo's incorporation in the European state system also had tragic consequences, including the undermining of local African structures of authority—on which the colonial system actually depended.
Kongo in the Age of Empire
carefully documents the involvement of Kongo's royal court in the exercise of Portuguese rule in northern Angola and the ways that Kongo citizens experienced colonial rule as an increasingly illegitimate extension of royal power.