King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa  by Adam Hochschild

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Adam Hochschild

400 pages 1998

53 editions

nonfiction history politics challenging dark informative medium-paced
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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...

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