Benoît Henriet
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About the Author
Benoît Henriet is a historian whose work explores the complex relationships between colonial power, violence, morality, and everyday life in Central Africa. His research brings together political, social, and intellectual history to examine how institutions and individuals shaped—and were shaped by—the colonial experience. In Colonial Impotence: Virtue and Violence in a Congolese Concession (1911–1940) (Africa in Global History, 3), Henriet offers a nuanced study of power and contradiction in the Belgian Congo, illuminating the tensions between ideals of virtue and the realities of coercion. His scholarship is rigorous, historically grounded, and attentive to the human consequences of empire.
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rigorous
nuanced
analytical
Books by Benoît Henriet
