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100	1		_aDaughton, J. P. _q(James Patrick), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_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	0	0	_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	2	0	_aChemin de fer Congo-océan _xHistory.
650		0	_aRailroads _zCongo (Brazzaville) _xHistory.
650		0	_aRailroad construction workers _xAbuse of _zCongo (Brazzaville) _xHistory.
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