Jedna z najlepszych książek jakie kiedykolwiek czytałam. Świetnie napisana historia "odkrywania" Afryki przez oświeconych Europejczyków i jednocześnie gorzkie podsumowanie niezbyt chlubnej karty belgijskiej historii.
This book documents the human rights abuses in colonial Congo at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. It's a story that almost everyone has forgotten, even though it was the basis for Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. People assume that Heart of Darkness is supposed to be a wi...
Scrolling through my past reads, almost all of them fiction, it struck me how much my reading could benefit from more variety. The first non-fiction book I bought, as far back as I can remember, had to do with futurism, and I never did finish it. Scandalous! What non-fiction I've dabbled in since th...
A very troubling look at the Belgian involvement in the Congo -- a chapter in the European 'Scramble for Africa' -- that I had not known much about. Leopold, in particular, comes out looking very bad. The book (which I listened to as an audio) is still a bit too long and spends too much time on nar...
Dedication: For David Hunter*gasp* what, him from Crossroads!?IntroductionPrologueMapOpening: On January 28 1841, a quarter-century after Turkey's failed expedition, the man who would spectacularly accomplish what Turkey tried to do was born in the small Welsh market town of Denbigh.
Every once in a while, I come across a writer that will tell me a story exactly as I wish it to be told to me; even if I didn't yet know how at the time. This is one of those instances.It's quite well known now, or at least I hope it is, that King Leopold II of the Belgians orchestrated a system of ...
Gripping. I particularly appreciated the constant effort Hochschild makes to track down Congolese voices, such as have survived, rather that keeping them as silent victims in a European narrative, which is usually what annoys me in books about the Western encounter with the rest of the world.
This book was a really interesting look at the political climate in Europe before and during World War I. It goes beyond the battles and astronomical losses of life to look at the events that led up to the war and the political and military thinking that led to the rise of trench warfare that locke...
This is a well researched book about one of the most evil men that no one has ever heard of. King Leopold of Belgium wanted to have a colony like England and France. He manipulated his country into giving him money and bonds to help the Congo people escape the terrors of "Arab" slave traders. In ...
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