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King Leopold's Ghost : A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild, GIL ARISTU JOSE LUIS, is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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
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- Author
- Adam Hochschild, GIL ARISTU JOSE LUIS,
- Publisher
- Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780395759240
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Western, Labor & Industrial Relations
- Rating
- 4.15 / 5 (25,849 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
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- King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa (1998)
- El fantasma del rey Leopoldo : una historia de codicia, terror y heroísmo en el África colonial (2018)
- King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa (1992)
- Duch króla Leopolda : opowieść o chciwości, terrorze i bohaterstwie w kolonialnej Afryce (2021)
- Northern Rhodesia and Southern Rhodesia: The Controversial History and Legacy of the British Colonies in the 20th Century (2020)
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- King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in colonial Africa (2002)
- King Leopold's ghost: the plunder of the Congo and the twentieth century's first international human rights movement: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Co (1999)
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