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03060aam a2200445 i 4500 001 14327322E5FB11EB9DB2ACEA33ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210716010010 008 210112s2021 nyu e b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021000745 020 $a 0393541010 020 $a 9780393541014 035 $a (OCoLC)1196174179 040 $a IEN/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d TOH $d FM0 $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a f-cf--- 082 04 $a 385.096724 $2 23 100 1 $a Daughton, J. P. $q (James Patrick), $e author. 245 10 $a In the forest of no joy : $b the Congo-OceÌan railroad and the tragedy of French colonialism / $c J.P. Daughton. 246 30 $a Congo-OceÌan railroad and the tragedy of French colonialism 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b W. W. Norton & Company, $c [2021] 300 $a 368 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-356) and index. 505 00 $t The Violence of Empire. $t Remaking the Congo -- $t The Right Man for the Job -- $t The Pacha Prelude -- $t Manhunt -- $t "The Mayombe Doesn't Want Us" -- $t Tropic of Cruelty -- $t Disobedience and Desertion -- $t The Many Ways of Death -- $t A Bureaucrat's Humanitarianism -- $t Silencing Critics -- $t The Victory and the Forgetting -- $t The Violence of Empire. 520 $a "The epic story of the Congo-OceÌan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-OceÌan 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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 610 20 $a Chemin de fer Congo-oceÌan $x History. 650 0 $a Railroads $z Congo (Brazzaville) $x History. 650 0 $a Railroad construction workers $x History. $z Congo (Brazzaville) $x History. 941 $a 8 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409041001.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012020828.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010023716.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804024048.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20220630014802.0 952 $l AXPF626 $d 20220223012128.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20211002015623.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210716010027.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=14327322E5FB11EB9DB2ACEA33ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search