Book Review King Leopold S Ghost

Henry stanley a known advocate of african colonization wrote a general account of the african life.

Book review king leopold s ghost. I don t demand much from my nonfiction. As a result leopold acted as a kind of venture capitalist leasing out his property to private companies. King leopold s ghost by adam hochschild.

The account was full of exaggerations and promises that is stimulants to pressure the european powers to colonize africa. Posted on september 28 2017 by tietsu. General summary the first chapters of the book provided insight to the colonization of congo.

Not sure what i d do without kibin alfredo alvarez student miami university. And king leopold s ghost is a model account both of that great public movement and of the frenzy of killing and profiteering that gave rise to it jeremy harding the new york times book review adam hochschild writes a compelling narrative in lucid prose one that chronicles a conveniently forgotten atrocity that stains the pages of world. Adam hochschild s king leopold s ghost is a gripping account of a murder mystery a mystery made all the more horrific because it involves an estimated 10 million victims.

King leopold s ghost book review. Maybe i m just cheap maybe i. However with the congo leopold took the covetousness abuse and savagery of the period to an unquestionably more outrageous and repulsive.

To be blunt he devastated the country by robbing it of its. Although much of the material in king leopold s ghost is secondhand the author has drawn heavily from jules marchal s scholarly four volume history of turn of the century congo and from the scramble for africa thomas pakenham s wide ranging 1991 study of the european conquest of the continent hochschild has stitched it together into. King lepold s ghost by adam hochschild.

What s not to love. But unlike a venture capitalist leopold had his own private army which he used to protect his territory and consolidate his control over the. Reviews thesis statement adam hochschild king leopold ii.