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

Author : Adam Hochschild
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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 cultiv

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ate 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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mariner Books; Reprint edition (3 September 1999)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ 3 September 1999
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Number of pages ‏ : ‎ ± 500

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