Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

The Statesman’s Year-Book pp 698–703Cite as

Palgrave Macmillan

Belgian Congo

(Congo Belge.)

  • Chapter

  • 29 Accesses

Part of the book series: The Statesman’s Yearbook ((SYBK))

Abstract

The Congo Independent State was founded in 1885 by Leopold II., King of the Belgians, and the State was placed under his sovereignty, but its perpetual neutrality, in accordance with the provision of Chapter III. of the General Act of Berlin (1885), was guaranteed. [Concerning this Act, see Statesman’s Year-Book for 1908—p. 874.]

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   99.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Books of Reference concerning the Belgian Congo

1. Official

  • Anglo-Congolese Convention of May 12, 1894. and May 9, 1906.

    Google Scholar 

  • The Bulletin Officiel du Congo Belge succeeds from Nov. 15, 1908, the Bulletin Officiel de l’Etat Indépendant. Brussels.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bulletin Agricole du Congo Belge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Renseignements de l’Office Colonial.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bulletin Administratif et Commercial, published fortnightly at Boma.

    Google Scholar 

  • Journal Administratif du Vice-Gouvernement Général du Katanga, published fortnightly at Elizabethville.

    Google Scholar 

  • Convention between Her Majesty and the King of the Belgians in the name of the International Association of the Congo. London, 1885.—Correspondence with Her Majesty’s Ambassador at Berlin respecting West African Conference. London, 1885.—Franco-Congolese Convention of August 14, 1894.—General Act of the Conference held at Brussels in 1890—Protocols and General Act of the West African Conference. London, 1885.—L’Etat Indépendant du Congo. Documents sur le Pays et ses Habitants. Brussels.

    Google Scholar 

  • Correspondence, and Report from His Majesty’s Consul at Boma, respecting the administration of the Independent State of the Congo. London, various Blue-Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kuck (C.), Belges! Connaissons notre Congo. London, 1918.

    Google Scholar 

2. Unofficial

  • Alexis (M. G. F.), Notre Colonie en 1910.

    Google Scholar 

  • Anton (G. R.), and Barnhaupt (C.), Kongostaat und Kongo Reform. Munich, 1911.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bertrand (J.), Le Congo Belge. Brussels, 1909.

    Google Scholar 

  • Blanchard (G.), Formation et Constitution Politique de l’Etat Independant du Congo. Paris, 1899.

    Google Scholar 

  • Boulger (D. C.), The Congo State. London, 1898.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bourne (H. R. F.), Civilization in Congoland. London, 1903.

    Google Scholar 

  • Büchler (M.), Der Kongostaat Leopolds II. 2 vols. Zurich, 1913.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bardo (A.), Les Belges dans l’Afrique centrale. 6 vols. Brussels. 1891.

    Google Scholar 

  • Castelein (A.), L’État du Congo, ses origines, ses droits, ses devoirs, le réquisitoire de ses accusateurs. Brussels, 1907.

    Google Scholar 

  • Cattier (F.), Droit et Administration de l’Etat Indépendant du Congo. Brussels, 1898.

    Google Scholar 

  • Étude sur la situation de l’Etat Indépendant du Congo. Brussels, 1906.

    Google Scholar 

  • Deseamps (Baron E.), L’Afrique Nouvelle. Brussels, 1903. Also English Translatio London, 1903.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dubreucq (R.), A travers le Congo Belge. Brussels, 1909.

    Google Scholar 

  • Durand (E.) and (H.), Sylioge Florae Congolanae. Brussels, 1909. Goffart (F.) et Morissen (G.), Le Congo: Géographie physique, politique et économique. Brussels, 1908.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gohr (A.), De l’Organisation judiciaire et de la compétence en matière civile et commerciale au Congo. Liège, 1910.

    Google Scholar 

  • Goffin (A.), Les pêcheries et les Poissons du Congo. Brussels, 1909.

    Google Scholar 

  • Halewyck (M.), La Charte Coloniale. Brussels, 1910.

    Google Scholar 

  • Harris (J. H.), Dawn in Darkest Africa. London, 1912.

    Google Scholar 

  • Huterau (A.), Documents Ethnographiques Congolais. Brussels, 1910.

    Google Scholar 

  • Jack (Major E. M.), On the Congo Frontier. Travel and Sport. London, 1914.

    Google Scholar 

  • Johnston (Sir H. H.), The River Congo. London, 1895.—The Colonisation of Africa. Cambridge. 1899.

    Google Scholar 

  • Keith (A. B.), The Belgian Congo and the Berlin Act. London, 1919.

    Google Scholar 

  • Keltie (J. Scott), The Partition of Africa. 2nd Edition. London, 1896.

    Google Scholar 

  • Michaux (C.), Pourquoi et comment nous devons Coloniser. Brussels, 1910.

    Google Scholar 

  • Morel (E. D.), Affairs of West Africa. London, 1902.—King Leopold’s Rule in Africa, London, 1904.—Red Rubber. With Introduction by Sir H. Johnston. London, 1906.—Great Britain and the Congo. London, 1909.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ortroy (F. Van), Conventions Internationales concernant l’Afrique. Brussels, 1898.

    Google Scholar 

  • Paque (E. A. J.), Notre Colonic Étude pratiçue sur le Congo Belge. Namur, 1910.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pierantoni (R.), Le Congrès de Berlin et l’ Etat Independant du Congo. Brussels, 1901.

    Google Scholar 

  • Reclus (E.), Nouvelle géographie universelle. Vol. XIII. Paris, 1888.

    Google Scholar 

  • Roby (M.), My Adventures in the Congo. London, 1911.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stanley (H. M.), The Congo and the Founding of its Free State. 2 vols. London, 1885.—Through the Dark Continent. 2 vols. London, 1878.

    Google Scholar 

  • Van Der Linden (Fr.), Le Congo, les noirs et nous. 1890.

    Google Scholar 

  • Waltz (H.), Das Konzessionswesen im Belgischen Kongo. 2 vols. Jena, 1917

    Google Scholar 

  • Wauters (A. J.). L Etat Indépendant du Congo. Brussels, 1899.—Bibliographie de Congo (1880–95). Brussels, 1S96.—De Bruxelles à Karema. Brussels, 1901.—Histoire Politique du Congo belge. Brussels, 1912.

    Google Scholar 

  • Weeks (John), Among the Primitive Bakongo. London, 1914.

    Google Scholar 

  • White (A. Silva), The Development of Africa. London, 1890.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wiese (K.), Belgisch-Kongo. Berlin, 1916.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wildeman (É. de), Les Plantes Tropicales de Grande Culture. Brussels, 1902.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wildeman (É. de), et Gentil (L.), Lianes eaoutchoutifères de l’Etat Indépendant du Congo. Brussels, 1903.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. Sir John Scott Keltie LL.D.
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. M. Epstein M.A., Ph.D.
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

John Scott Keltie LL.D. (Formerly Secretary to the Royal Geographical Society, Honorary Corresponding Member of the Geographical Societies of Scotland, Paris, Petrograd, Rome, Lisbon, Amsterdam, Brussels, Geneva, Neuchatel, Philadelphia, and of the Commercial Geographical Society of Paris)M. Epstein M.A., Ph.D. (Fellow of the Royal Geographical and of the Royal Economic Societies)

Copyright information

© 1919 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Scott Keltie, J., Epstein, M. (1919). Belgian Congo. In: Scott Keltie, J., Epstein, M. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270480_18

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation