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E-book The Leopard, the Lion, and the Cock : Colonial Memories and Monuments in Belgium

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Some people still like King Leopold II of Belgium. In 2015, the city of Brussels planned to celebrate the king with “un hommage sur la place du Trône, devant la statue de Léopold II” (a tribute at the place du Trône, in front of the statue of Leopold II),3 a large equestrian monument that sits just outside the Royal Palace along the capital city’s inner ring road.4 The event was meant to observe the 150th anniversary of the king’s ascent to the throne on 17 December 1865, and to honor his contributions to the cityscape of Brussels, of which there are many. The commemoration was planned despite the fact that Belgium’s second king was infamous both in his home country and abroad for a colonial misrule in Africa so brutal that he had been compared to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. Planners must also have been oblivious to the “R hodes Must Fall” campaign that began months earlier in South Africa, which initially centered on the presence of a statue to arch-imperialist Cecil R hodes at the University of Cape Town, and which led to its removal by the university in April. Two months afterward, in June 2015, a mass shooting by a deranged white supremacist in Charleston, South Carolina, led to soul-searching in the U.S. about that country’s history of white oppression of blacks. Some states began taking down Confederate monuments and other symbols of the country’s history of slavery and oppression. South Carolina and A labama removed the Confederate battle f lags from their state capitols, and the University of Texas took down a statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, which students had voted to remove the previous March.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

325.34931 STA t

Penerbit

Belgium : Leuven University Press.., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

339 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789461665218

Klasifikasi

325.34931

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Colonialism in Belgium

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