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

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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa - [AUDIOBOOK]
mp3 | 348.74 MB | Author: Hochschild, Adam | Year: 2006

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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 parti[beeep]nts in the twentieth century's first great human rights movement.

Category:Awards, History, Social Sciences, Current Affairs & Politics, African History, World History, African Studies, European History, World Politics, General African History, Colonialism & Imperialism, General & Miscellaneous European History, Southern African History, African Politics & Government, African Politics, Africa - Colonial History, Belgium - History, Congo, Dematic Republic of the (Zaire) - History, General African Politics & Government, 1990-2000->Gelber Prize, 1991-2000->Duff Cooper Prize Winners, 1999 Lukas Prizes Winners, Mark Lynton History Prize->All Winners

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