King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa /
Hochschild, Adam.
King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa / Adam Hochschild. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998. - 366 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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.
9780330441988
98016813
Forced labor--History--Congo (Democratic Republic)--19th century.
Forced labor--History--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.
Indigenous peoples--History--Congo (Democratic Republic)--19th century.
Indigenous peoples--History--Congo (Democratic Republic)--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.
DT655 / .H63 1998
967.51/022
King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa / Adam Hochschild. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998. - 366 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
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.
9780330441988
98016813
Forced labor--History--Congo (Democratic Republic)--19th century.
Forced labor--History--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.
Indigenous peoples--History--Congo (Democratic Republic)--19th century.
Indigenous peoples--History--Congo (Democratic Republic)--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.
DT655 / .H63 1998
967.51/022