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100 1 $aDaughton, J. P.$q(James Patrick),$eauthor.
245 10 $aIn the forest of no joy :$bthe Congo-Océan railroad and the tragedy of French colonialism /$cJ.P. Daughton.
250 $aFirst edition.
264 1 $aNew York, NY :$bW. W. Norton & Company,$c[2021]
300 $a368 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 313-356) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: Of Thousands Gone --$tRemaking the Congo --$tThe Right Man for the Job --$tThe Pacha Prelude --$tManhunt --$t"The Mayombe Doesn't Want Us" --$tTropic of Cruelty --$tDisobedience and Desertion --$tThe Many Ways of Death --$tA Bureaucrat's Humanitarianism --$tSilencing Critics --$tThe Victory and the Forgetting --$tThe Violence of Empire.
520 $a"The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ostensibly democratic nation whose motto read "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity," but liberal ideals were savaged by a cruelly indifferent administrative state. Native workers were forcibly conscripted and suffered under hellish conditions-hunger, disease, rampant physical abuse-that resulted in at least 20,000-25,000 deaths. In the Forest of No Joy captures in vivid detail the experiences of the men, women, and children who toiled on the railroad, and forces a reassessment of the moral relationship between modern industrialized empires and what could be called global humanitarian impulses-the desire to improve the lives of people outside of Europe"--$cProvided by publisher.
610 20 $aChemin de fer Congo-océan$xHistory.
650 0 $aRailroads$zCongo (Brazzaville)$xHistory.
650 0 $aRailroad construction workers$xAbuse of$zCongo (Brazzaville)$xHistory.
650 7 $aTECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Transport.$2bisacsh
610 27 $aChemin de fer Congo-océan.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00615248
650 7 $aRailroads.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01088711
651 7 $aCongo (Brazzaville)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01208750
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