King Leopold's Ghost. A Story of Greed Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa / Hochschild Adam / Книга на Английском (Hochschild Adam); Picador, 2019

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver.

In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian.

King Leopold's Ghost is the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.

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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9781509882205
Автор(ы)	Hochschild Adam
Вес	0.31
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2019
Жанр	история
Издатель	Picador
Издательство	Picador
Кол-во страниц	380
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	380
Обложка	мягкая обложка
Серия	Picador Classic
Тип обложки	мягкая