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Author Taithe, Bertrand.

Title The killer trail : a colonial scandal in the heart of Africa / Bertrand Taithe
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Contents List of Illustrations; Note; Preface; 1. DYING FOR FRENCH SOUDAN; 2. CIVILIZATION AND AFRICA; 3. PRIVATEERING FOR FRANCE; 4. OFFICERS AND GENTLEMEN?; 5. SLAVING AND AFRICAN WARFARE; 6. CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND SCANDALS; 7. FROM THE HEART OF DARKNESS TO TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY GUILT; 8. CONCLUSION: TRAUMATIZED PERPETRATORS?; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index
Summary The Killer Trail tells the tale of one of the most notorious atrocities to take place during the European 'scramble for Africa', a real life story of insane violence in the heart of an exotic continent that eerily prefigures fictional accounts such as The Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now. The Voulet-Chanoine mission left Dakar in 1898 for the centre of Africa and the region of Lake Chad with the aim of establishing effective borders between the French and British empires while 'pacifying' a notoriously belligerent region
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Voulet, Paul, 1866-1899.
Chanoine, Julien, 1870-1899.
SUBJECT Chanoine, Julien, 1870-1899 fast
Voulet, Paul, 1866-1899 fast
Chanoine, Julien 1870-1899 gnd
Voulet, Paul 1866-1899 gnd
Subject Mission Afrique centrale.
SUBJECT Mission Afrique centrale fast
Subject French -- Africa, Central -- History -- 19th century
Atrocities -- Africa, Central -- History -- 19th century
Scandals -- France -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- Ancient.
HISTORY.
Atrocities
Colonization
Discoveries in geography -- French
French
Race relations
Scandals
Expedition
Kolonie
Afrika -- historia -- 1800-talet.
Frankrike -- kolonier -- Afrika.
SUBJECT Africa, Central -- Colonization
Africa, Central -- Discovery and exploration -- French
Africa, Central -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Subject Central Africa
France
Frankreich
Sahel
Zentralafrika
Franzosen.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009032249
ISBN 9780199231218
0199231214
9780191571558
0191571555
1282383396
9781282383395
9786612383397
6612383399