King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa / Adam Hochschild.
Material type: TextPublication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.Description: 366 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780330441988
- Forced labor -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century
- Forced labor -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 20th century
- Indigenous peoples -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 19th century
- Indigenous peoples -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- 20th century
- Human rights movements -- History -- 19th century
- Human rights movements -- History -- 20th century
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1885-1908
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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- DT655 .H63 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-350) and index.
Introduction--Prologue: "The traders are kidnapping our people"--Part I: Walking into fire--"I shall not give up the chase"--The fox crosses the stream--The magnificent cake--"The treaties must grant us everything"--From Florida to Berlin--Under the Yacht Club flag--The first heretic--Where there aren't no ten commandments--Meeting Mr. Kurtz--The wood that weeps--A secret society of murderers--Part II: A king at bay--David and Goliath--Breaking into the thieves' kitchen--To flood his deeds with day--A reckoning--"Journalists won't five you receipts"--No man is a stranger--Victory?--The great forgetting--Looking back: a personal afterword--Notes.
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