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

✍ Hochschild, Adam 📂 Fiction 🏛 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 🌐 English ⚖ 1 MB

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its p

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

✍ Hochschild, Adam 📂 Fiction 📅 1998 🏛 Macmillan 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its p

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

📂 Fiction 📅 1998 🌐 English ⚖ 5 MB

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed,

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africaby Adam Hochschild

✍ Review by: Gail M. Gerhart 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 Council on Foreign Relations 🌐 English ⚖ 208 KB

Colonial Situations: Essays on the Conte

Colonial Situations: Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledgeby George W. Stocking,;The King of the World in the Land of the Pygmiesby Joan Mark;Bambo Jordan: An Anthropological Narrativeby Bruce T. Williams;Anthropology and Africa: Changing Perspectives on a Changing Sceneby Sally F. Moore

✍ Review by: Marjorie A. Franken 📂 Article 📅 1996 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English ⚖ 509 KB