Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts

Colonial Exploitation in the Congo

Jules Marchal (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

2008
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-84467-239-4 (ISBN)

Infos

In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British enterpreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. This title exposes the nature of forced labor under Lord Leverhulme's rule and the appalling conditions imposed upon the inhabitants of Congo.

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In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British enterpreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian system of forced labor, a program that reduced the population of Congo by half and accounted for more deaths than the Nazi Holocaust. In this definitive, meticulously researched history, Jules Marchal exposes the nature of forced labor under Lord Leverhulme's rule and the appalling conditions imposed upon the people of Congo. With an extensive introduction by Adam Hochschild, Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts is an important and urgently needed account of a laboratory of colonial exploitation.

Autor

A former diplomat in the Belgian Congo, Jules Marchal (1924-2004) spent twenty years researching forced labor. Adam Hochschild is the author of the award-winning "King Leopold's Ghost" and "Bury the Chains." He teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.6.2008
• Einführung: Adam Hochschild
• Übersetzer: Martin Thom
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 165 x 241 mm
• Gewicht: 562 g
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-84467-239-5 / 1844672395
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-239-4 / 9781844672394
• Zustand: Neuware