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| Genre/Form: | History Books |
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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's ghost. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998 (OCoLC)607025246 Online version: Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold's ghost. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998 (OCoLC)607857445 |
| Named Person: | E D Morel; Léopold, roi des Belges |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Adam Hochschild |
| ISBN: | 0395759242 9780395759240 9780618001903 0618001905 |
| OCLC Number: | 39042794 |
| Awards: | Winner of Duff Cooper Memorial Prize 2000 Winner of Lionel Gelber Prize 1999 |
| Description: | 366 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | Prologue: "The traders area kidnapping our people" -- Part I: Walking into fire. "I shall not give up the chase" ; The fox crosses the stream ; The magnificent cake ; "The treaties must grant us everything" ; From Florida to Berlin ; Under the Yacht Club flag ; The first heretic ; Where there aren't no Ten Commandments ; Meeting Mr. Kurtz ; The wood that weeps ; A secret society of murderers -- Part II: A King at bay. David and Goliath ; Breaking into the thieves' kitchen ; To flood his deeds with day ; A reckoning ; "Journalists won't give you recipes" ; No man is a stranger ; Victory? ; The Great Forgetting -- Looking back : a personal afterword. |
| Other Titles: | Story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa |
| Responsibility: | Adam Hochschild. |
Abstract:
A colorful, provocative study of King Leopold II of Belgium's genocidal plunder of the Congo in the 1880s, as the European powers were colonizing Africa, reveals the heroic efforts that led to the
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