Description: King Leopold's Ghost A Story of Greed, terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa. At the turn of the century, as European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried out a brutal plundering of the 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 Leopolds 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 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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Book Title: King Leopold’s Ghost
Item Length: 9in
Publisher: HarperCollins
Edition: First mariners books edition
Publication Year: 1999
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 1.1in
Author: ADAM Hochschild
Genre: History, Social Science, Political Science
Topic: Slavery, Labor & Industrial Relations, WORLD / African, Africa / General, Sociology / General, Human Rights, Indigenous Studies, Africa / Central
Item Width: 6in
Item Weight: 10.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 376
