A nervous state : violence, remedies, and reverie in colonial Congo /

In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold's Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form, she instead brings alive a history of colonial nervousness. This mood suffused medical investigations, security operations, and vernacu...

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Main Author: Hunt, Nancy Rose (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
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Online Access:CONNECT