Vient de paraître The Belgian Congo between the Two World Wars sous la direction de Jacques Vanderlinden publié par l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer

Vient de paraître The Belgian Congo between the Two World Wars sous la direction de Jacques Vanderlinden publié par l’Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2019, 363 p. Prix : 25 €.

Cet ouvrage correspond aux actes du colloque international de l’Académie royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer "The Belgian Congo between the Two World Wars" (17 & 18 mars 2016)

"The period between the signature of the Versailles Treaty and the establishment of the League of Nations on the one hand and the start of the Second World War on the other (1919-1939) is a most interesting and often neglected one. Before the First World War, during the ten years or so which followed the take-over of the Congo Free State by Belgium, Belgian colonial policy was in its infancy. Most of the personnel in charge of its application was for some time that of the former state and, within six years, the war had started in Europe and also in Africa. Consequently, 1919 appears an appropriate starting time for a period of twenty years at the end of which Belgium was not formally engaged in the new conflict, but was already getting ready for it in some spheres of activity. "