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Human Rights Violations: The Belgian Congo

Suggested Articles and Web Resources

Madley, Benjamin. "From Africa to Auschwitz: How German South West Africa Incubated Ideas and Methods Adopted and Developed by the Nazis in Eastern Europe." European History Quarterly 35, no.3 (2005): 429-464.
Zimmerer, Jurgen. "Annihilation in Africa: The “Race War” in German Southwest Africa (1904–1908) and its Significance for a Global History of Genocide." German Historical Institute Bulletin 37 (2005): 51-57.
Hull, Isabel. "The Military Campaign in German Southwest Africa, 1904–1907." German Historical Institute Bulletin 37 (2005): 39-44.
Colonial Genocides, Genocides Studies Program, Yale University
Barta, Tony. "“They appear actually to vanish from the face of the Earth.” Aborigines and the European project in Australia Felix." Journal of Genocide Research 10, no. 4 (2008): 519-539.
Mcveigh, Robbie. "“The Balance of Cruelty”: Ireland, Britain and the Logic of Genocide." Journal of Genocide Research 10, no. 4 (2008): 541-561.

Suggested Books

Selling the Congo: A History of European Pro-Empire Propaganda and the Making of Belgian Imperialism by Matthew G. Stanard
Publication Date: 2012
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Online book
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Call Number: DT655 .H63 1999
Publication Date: 1998
In the library on the first floor
The UN's Role in Nation-Building by James Dobbins; Keith Crane; Seth G. Jones
Publication Date: 2005
Publisher: RAND Corporation

Online book
European Imperialism, 1830-1930: Climax and Contradiction by Alice L. Conklin; Ian Christopher Fletcher
Call Number: D363 .E95 1999
Publication Date: 1998
In the library on the first floor
Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany by Isabel V. Hull
Call Number: DD103 .H85 2006
Publication Date: 2004
In the library, on the first floor

Videos

King Leopold's Ghost
Call Number: DVD 1030
Publication Date: 2008
On reserve at the library Circulation Desk

From Congo to Zaire (2001)