King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
- Kategoria:
- historia
- Wydawnictwo:
- Mariner Books
- Data wydania:
- 1999-03-09
- Data 1. wydania:
- 1999-03-09
- Liczba stron:
- 400
- Czas czytania
- 6 godz. 40 min.
- Język:
- angielski
- Tagi:
- niewolnictwo kolonializm ludobójstwo kapitalizm
In the late nineteenth century, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried out a brutal plundering of the territory surrounding the Congo River. Ultimately slashing the area’s population by ten million, he still managed to shrewdly cultivate his reputation as a great humanitarian. A tale far richer than any novelist could invent, King Leopold’s Ghost is the horrifying account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who defied Leopold: African rebel leaders who fought against hopeless odds and a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure but unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust and participants in the twentieth century’s first great human rights movement.