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"In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which the heart of Africa was utterly transformed in the nineteenth century and the rainforest of the Congo River basin became one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Harms reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world"--

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. --- Central Africa. --- Colonization --- HISTORY / Africa / Central. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. --- colonial history. --- colonization. --- expeditions. --- scramble for Africa. --- Social aspects. --- To 1884. --- Africa, Central --- Environmental aspects. --- History

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History of Congo --- anno 1500-1799 --- Investments --- Investissements --- History --- Histoire --- Congo River watershed --- Congo, Bassin du --- Commerce --- Social conditions --- Conditions sociales --- Congo River Watershed --- 967.5 --- 911.3 <675> --- -#SJ/LH/(6) --- Investing --- Investment management --- Portfolio --- Finance --- Disinvestment --- Loans --- Saving and investment --- Speculation --- Geschiedenis van Zaïre (Kongo) --- Sociale geografie. Culturele geografie--Zaïre. Belgisch Kongo --- -Congo River Watershed --- -Commerce --- -History --- History. --- 967.5 Geschiedenis van Zaïre (Kongo) --- #SJ/LH/(6) --- Social conditions. --- Investments - Congo River Watershed - History --- Congo River Watershed - Commerce - History --- Congo River Watershed - Social conditions

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Africa's equatorial rain forests cover an area roughly the size of continental Western Europe, and yet the history of this area remains largely unexplored. Robert Harms makes an important advance in this book toward recovering that history by telling the story of the Nunu, who live in and around the swampy floodplains of the middle Zaire River. A key element in Nunu history has been the small-scale, short-distance migrations that continually led individuals and groups into new micro-environments. When an increasing population impinged upon the limits of available resources in the late eighteenth century, a crisis characterized by drastic change and incessant conflict ensued. The Nunu abandoned their ancestral estates to take up new forms of competition in river towns, causing a conflict of identity which culminated in civil war in the 1960s.

Nunu (African people) --- -Nunu (African people) --- Banunu (African people) --- Human ecology --- Ecologie humaine --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- Ethnology --- Ecology --- Environment, Human --- Human beings --- Human environment --- Ecological engineering --- Human geography --- Nature --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Social aspects --- Effect of environment on --- Effect of human beings on --- Arts and Humanities --- History

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