A very disturbing book that puts light on colonialism. Hochschild writers very well; at no point is the book boring nor does it read like a list. Hochschild is also even handed. He doesn't whitewash - good guys have flaws, and he mentions them. Hochschild does make the reader think about how the Wes...
‘Exterminate all the brutes!’ – Kurtz A very readable summary of one of the first real international human rights campaigns, a campaign focussed on that vast slab of central Africa once owned, not by Belgium, but personally by the Belgian King. The Congo Free State was a handy microcosm of coloniali...
Today [July 28th, 2014] marks 100 YEARS TO THE DAY that the First World War began with the invasion of Serbia by the Austro-Hungarian Empire. "To End All Wars" is the story, told from a variety of viewpoints, of how Britain fared under the stresses of war between 1914 and 1918. The author "focuse...
If you ask an educated American to name the worst despots and atrocities of the twentieth century, you'll immediately hear such names as Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot. Very few would name Leopold II, King of the Belgians and absolute master of the Belgian Congo. I wouldn't have before reading this...
Jedna z najlepszych książek jakie kiedykolwiek czytałam. Świetnie napisana historia "odkrywania" Afryki przez oświeconych Europejczyków i jednocześnie gorzkie podsumowanie niezbyt chlubnej karty belgijskiej historii.
Jedna z najlepszych książek jakie kiedykolwiek czytałam. Świetnie napisana historia "odkrywania" Afryki przez oświeconych Europejczyków i jednocześnie gorzkie podsumowanie niezbyt chlubnej karty belgijskiej historii.
Jedna z najlepszych książek jakie kiedykolwiek czytałam. Świetnie napisana historia "odkrywania" Afryki przez oświeconych Europejczyków i jednocześnie gorzkie podsumowanie niezbyt chlubnej karty belgijskiej historii.
Jedna z najlepszych książek jakie kiedykolwiek czytałam. Świetnie napisana historia "odkrywania" Afryki przez oświeconych Europejczyków i jednocześnie gorzkie podsumowanie niezbyt chlubnej karty belgijskiej historii.
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