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King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa / Adam Hochschild ; foreword by Barbara Kingsolver.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Boston : Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020Copyright date: ©1998Edition: Second Mariner Books editionDescription: 379 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates illustrations, map 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780358212508
  • 0358212502
Other title:
  • Story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa [Portion of title]
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: King Leopold's ghost.; Online version:: King Leopold's ghost.DDC classification:
  • 976.5 21
  • 967.51/022 22
LOC classification:
  • DT655
Other classification:
  • 15.80
  • Kpdaa.46
  • Kpdaa.5
Contents:
Prologue: "The traders area kidnapping our people" -- Part I: Walking into fire. "I shall not give up the chase" ; The fox crosses the stream ; The magnificent cake ; "The treaties must grant us everything" ; From Florida to Berlin ; Under the Yacht Club flag ; The first heretic ; Where there aren't no Ten Commandments ; Meeting Mr. Kurtz ; The wood that weeps ; A secret society of murderers -- Part II: A King at bay. David and Goliath ; Breaking into the thieves' kitchen ; To flood his deeds with day ; A reckoning ; "Journalists won't give you recipes" ; No man is a stranger ; Victory? ; The Great Forgetting -- Looking back : a personal afterword.
Summary: Chronicles the life of King Leopold II of Belgium and discusses how he plundered the Congo, how his people tried to overthrow him, and other related topics.

Reprint. Originally published in Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-364) and index.

Prologue: "The traders area kidnapping our people" -- Part I: Walking into fire. "I shall not give up the chase" ; The fox crosses the stream ; The magnificent cake ; "The treaties must grant us everything" ; From Florida to Berlin ; Under the Yacht Club flag ; The first heretic ; Where there aren't no Ten Commandments ; Meeting Mr. Kurtz ; The wood that weeps ; A secret society of murderers -- Part II: A King at bay. David and Goliath ; Breaking into the thieves' kitchen ; To flood his deeds with day ; A reckoning ; "Journalists won't give you recipes" ; No man is a stranger ; Victory? ; The Great Forgetting -- Looking back : a personal afterword.

Chronicles the life of King Leopold II of Belgium and discusses how he plundered the Congo, how his people tried to overthrow him, and other related topics.

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