Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts
«His capacious narrative is both disturbing and fascinating.»
The New Yorker
In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian system of forced labor, a program that reduced the population of Congo by half and accounted for more deaths than the Nazi Holocaust. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Verso Books
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 272
- ISBN
- 9781784786311
- Utgivelsesår
- 2017
- Format
- 21 x 14 cm
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«His capacious narrative is both disturbing and fascinating.»
The New Yorker
«A hundred years ago, enlightened people in the western world were outraged by a holocaust in Africa which left millions dead. Yet today not one person in a thousand could say what the fuss was all about, unless, of course, they have already read this amazing book.»
Tariq Ali, Financial Times
«A brilliantly told tale, at once horrifying and pleasurable to read.»
Publishers Weekly
«No other scholar, looking at any other part of Africa, has studied colonial forced labour as thoroughly as Marchal has in the Congo.»
Adam Hochschild, from the introduction