The Congo Free State: What Could Archives Tell Us?; New light and research perspective

ISBN-13: 9782807607361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 412 str.

Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi; Patricia Van Schuylenbergh

Opis

This book explores the Congo Free State under Leopold II (1885-1908) as a space of transnational encounter through an analysis of its representation across languages, media and cultures. It brings to light new considerations and help to better envision the impact memory and history may have on specific groups across Europe and Northern America.

O autorze

Patricia Van Schuylenbergh heads the Unit History and Politics at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA) and is scientific curator of the colonial archives held at the institution. She recently co-edited with the Belgium State Archives, Belgique, Congo, Rwanda et Burundi: Guide des sources de l'histoire de la colonisation (19e-20e siècle) (2021).

Mathilde Leduc-Grimaldi is the Henry M. Stanley Archives and Collections' curator at the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA). Her last book Finding Livingstone, a History in Documents from the Stanley Archives, is co-published with J. L. Newman (2021).