King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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Sell my copyAuthor: Adam Hochschild
Title: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 416
Release Date: 2020-03-03
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The 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver
"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." -- Christian Science Monitor
"As Hochschild's brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * A New York Times Notable Book
In the late nineteenth century, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried out a brutal plundering of the territory surrounding the Congo River. Ultimately slashing the area's population by ten million, he still managed to shrewdly cultivate his reputation as a great humanitarian. A tale far richer than any novelist could invent, King Leopold's Ghost is the horrifying account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who defied Leopold: African rebel leaders who fought against hopeless odds and a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure but unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust and participants in the twentieth century's first great human rights movement.
EAN: 9780358212508
Package Dimensions: Height: 8 inches, Length: 5.31 inches, Weight: 0.7 Pounds, Width: 1 inches
Languages: en
