King Leopold's ghost (Record no. 10664)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781509882205
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 967.51HOC
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Hochschild, Adam.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title King Leopold's ghost
Remainder of title a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Boston
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Houghton Mifflin
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1999
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 366 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes index
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. 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 the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Adam Hochschild brings this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo?too long forgotten?onto the conscience of the Wes
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Forced labor--Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--19th century.
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma Africa 01/17/2025   967.51HOC URD002099 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book