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King Leopold's ghost [electronic resource] : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa / Adam Hochschild.
Summary:
Documents the plundering of the territory.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780547525730 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0547525737 (electronic bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 p.) : ill., map.
- Edition: 1st Mariner Books ed.
- Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 338-350) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | "The traders area kidnapping our people" -- Walking into fire. "I shall not give up the chase" ; The fox crosses the dream ; 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 -- A King at bay. David and Goliath ; Breaking into the thieves' kitchen ; To flood his deeds with day ; A reckoning ; "Journalists won't give you recipes" ; No man is a stranger ; Victory? ; The Great Forgetting -- Looking back : a personal afterword. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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