This book presents the first anthology of Flemish prose on the Congo, the former colony of Belgium, in English translation. Because of the Dutch language barrie

Belgium was a small, neutral country without a colonial tradition when King Leopold II ceded the Congo, his personal property, to the state in 1908. For the nex

While the impact of a colonising metropole on subjected territories has been widely scrutinized, the effect of empire on the colonising country has long been ne

This book explains how and why Belgium, a small but influential European country, was changed through its colonial activities in the Congo, from the first exped

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