Name: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Picador Classic) (en Inglés)
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Author: Adam Hochschild
ISBN: 9781509882205

portada King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Picador Classic) (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

Pan Macmillan

Autor

Adam Hochschild

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

400

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781509882205

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (Picador Classic) (en Inglés)

Adam Hochschild (Autor) · Pan Macmillan · Tapa Blanda

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With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.