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

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Description: Amazon.com Review King Leopold of Belgium, writes historian Adam Hochschild in this grim history, did not much care for his native land or his subjects, all of which he dismissed as "small country, small people." Even so, he searched the globe to find a colony for Belgium, frantic that the scramble of other European powers for overseas dominions in Africa and Asia would leave nothing for himself or his people. When he eventually found a suitable location in what would become the Belgian Congo, later known as Zaire and now simply as Congo, Leopold set about establishing a rule of terror that would culminate in the death ... (more)

Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
Release date: 1 October 1999
ISBN-10 : 0618001905 | ISBN-13: 9780618001903

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