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King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild

King Leopold's Ghost

Adam Hochschild

400 pages first pub 1998 (view editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging dark informative medium-paced
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In the late nineteenth century, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried out a brutal plundering of the territory surrounding the Congo River. Ultimately slashing the area’s population by ten million, he st...

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