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

Paperback • 1999 • English • 1. edition

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

By Adam Hochschild

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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 population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of th...Show more

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ISBN

9780618001903

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin

Published year

1999

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

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

Format

Paperback

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