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King Leopold's Ghost
- A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Engelsk Paperback
King Leopold's Ghost
- A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Engelsk Paperback

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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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
416
ISBN-13:
9780358212508
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0358212502
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
3 mar 2020
Længde:
34mm
Bredde:
135mm
Højde:
202mm
Forlag:
HarperCollins
Oplagsdato:
3 mar 2020
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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