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King Leopold's Ghost
King Leopold's Ghost
Author: Adam Hochschild
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million -- all the while shrew...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780358212508
ISBN-10: 0358212502
Publication Date: 3/3/2020
Pages: 416
Edition: Reprint
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Publisher: Mariner Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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