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Hace 5 días · Confronting Leopold’s Ghost. By the late 19th century, Leopold was one of the richest people in Europe, ruling his colony from a timbered chalet next to the royal palace, but never setting foot on African soil. King Leopold II took control of Congo during the 19th century scramble for Africa, but his ruthless plundering of the country is a ...
19 de abr. de 2024 · The publication of Adam Hochschild’s "King Leopold’s Ghost" in 1999 briefly reignited debate in Belgium, which resurfaced intermittently over the next two decades. In 2005, a motion presented to the British House of Commons by Andrew Dismore called for the acknowledgment of the Congo Free State's atrocities as a "colonial genocide" and urged the Belgian government to issue a formal apology.
Hace 6 días · In a recent post about the Middelheim Museum, I started down a (very) slippery slope of thought about Belgium's difficult reckoning (or failure to reckon) with its colonial past.
21 de abr. de 2024 · In his book King Leopold’s Ghost, the historian Adam Hochschild tells how the DRC has had the most difficulty escaping from the colonial powers even today. “From the colonial era, the major legacy Europe left to Africa was not democracy as it is practiced today in countries like England, France, and Belgium; it was authoritarian ...
26 de abr. de 2024 · For me, that title was Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold’s Ghost, which recounts the history of Belgium’s brutal colonial rule over the Congo and how an early-20th-century human-rights...
30 de abr. de 2024 · In Belgium, too, academic historical attention returned to the colonial past. In 1998, the American historian Adam Hochschild, building on decades of Belgian scholarship, published ‘King Leopold’s Ghost’, a devastating account of Leopold’s private empire. It became an international bestseller.
Hace 6 días · King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by. Adam Hochschild. 4.17 avg rating — 59,834 ratings. score: 96, and 1 ...
