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King Leopolds' Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

King Leopolds' Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa more books like this

by Adam Hochschild

First published in 1999, Hochschild provides a riveting account of the Congo massacres, peopled by callous monarchs, corrupt adventurers and a handful of genuine heroes. This exemplary piece of history writing gives the facts that caused those atrocities.

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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves more books like this

by Adam Hochschild

Adam Hochschild's study of the Atlantic slave trade examines the breadth and depth of this institution in the British Empire, its role in the English economy, and the efforts of many who worked strenuously, over decades, to change it. Hochschild makes clear the devastations of slavery, underscoring how humans were considered to be disposable ...

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King Leopold's ghost.

King Leopold's ghost. more books like this

by Adam Hochschild

In the late 1890s Edmund Morel, a shipping company official working in Antwerp, noticed something suspicious. When his company's ships docked from the Congo, they were filled with valuable cargoes of rubber and ivory. Yet when they sailed back to Africa they carried nothing in exchange. Nothing, that is, except soldiers, military supplies and ...

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Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son

Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son more books like this

by Adam Hochschild

Harold Hochschild was an influential businessman, chief of a multi-national corporation. In this book, his only child, Adam, who became an antiwar activist, tells of his lifelong struggle to understand his powerful but distant father.

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The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin

The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin more books like this

by Adam Hochschild

Stalin's quarter-century rule in the USSR left 20 million people dead. In the late 1930s, during the height of the terror, one out of every eight Soviet citizens was shot or sent to a concentration camp. This study examines how people recover from such a repressive regime. It talks to prison survivors, writers and retired camp guards. It visits ...

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Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels

Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels more books like this

by Adam Hochschild

Essays on various subjects by a "Ramparts" writer and co-founder of "Mother Jones". His subjects include Hemingway, the Aryan Nation, El Salvador, John F. Kennedy, and prep schools. Winner of the 1998 PEN/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay.

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The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey

The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey more books like this

by Adam Hochschild

History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends history and reportage. Hochschild looks at the tensions of modern South Africa through a dramatic prism: the pivotal nineteenth-century Battle of Blood River -- which determined whether the Boers or ...

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Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo

Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo more books like this

by Jules Marchal, Adam Hochschild (Introduction by)

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 ...

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The Mirror at Midnight: 2a South African Journey more books like this

by Adam Hochschild

Hochschild deftly illuminates present-day South Africa by exploring the turmoin of its past. An incisive, provocative journey to the heart of a country clinging to its history, yet bound inexorably for change.

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Half the Way Home more books like this

by Adam Hochschild

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Airplanes, Women, and Song: Memoirs of a Fighter Ace, Test Pilot, and Adventurer

Airplanes, Women, and Song: Memoirs of a Fighter Ace, Test Pilot, and Adventurer more books like this

by Boris Sergievsky, Allan Forsyth (Editor), Adam Hochschild (Editor)

Sergeivsky dictated this lively and personal memoir in 1934 when he and Charles Lindbergh were about to set eight world records in a giant Pan American Clipper. It also details many exciting and historic events of his life from his time as a Russian infantry fighter to his worldwide pioneering flights.

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The Unquiet Ghost: 2russians Remember Stalin

The Unquiet Ghost: 2russians Remember Stalin more books like this

by Adam Hochschild

Stalin's rule over Russia left some 20 million people dead and, in the 35 years since his death, no one would openly write or talk about his vast self-inflicted genocide. With the advent of glasnost, journalist Hochschild explores how Russians today are healing the wounds from an avalanche of long-repressed memories. Photos.

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Half the Way Home more books like this

by Adam Hochchild, Adam Hochschild

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Adirondack Faces more books like this

by Mathias T Oppersdorff, Adam Hochschild (Designer), Alice Wolf Gilborn (Text by)

This is a collection of 53 portraits of inhabitants of the Adirondack landscape, one of the largest and last wilderness areas in the United States to be discovered. The pictures are accompanied by the subjects' own words, capturing the essence of life in this region.

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The Mirror at Midnight: 3a South African Journey more books like this

by Adam Hochschild

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Deadly Defense: Military Radioactive Landfills: A Citizen Guide more books like this

by Adam Hochschild (Designed by), Radioactive Waste Campaign, Dana Coyle

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Schatten üBer Dem Kongo

by Adam Hochschild

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Bury the Chains: the First International Human Rights Movement

by Adam Hochschild

Eighteenth-century Britain was the world's leading exponent of the slave trade: profits soared and among the beneficiaries were the Church of England and London's Tate Gallery. Yet in the space of a few short years, beginning in 1788, a group of Abolitionists moved the cause of anti-slavery to the very centre of British political life, from the ...

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The mirror at midnight : a journey to the heart of South Africa more books like this

by Adam Hochschild

The hope and upheaval of South Africa today, seen through the mirror of the great trek of the Boers in 1838 and the massacre of the Zulus in the Battle of Blood River. The author alternates images of this struggle with scenes from the battlefields of today's South Africa.

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Sprengt Die Ketten

by Adam; Spengler Hochschild, Ute

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Fantomes Du Roi Leopold (Les)

by Hochschild Adam

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Half the Way Home Counter Display

by Adam Hochschild

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