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Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts
Colonial Exploitation in the Congo
Taschenbuch von Jules Marchal
Sprache: Englisch

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In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur 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 labour, a programme 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 labour 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.
In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur 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 labour, a programme 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 labour 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.
Über den Autor
A former diplomat in the Belgian Congo, Jules Marchal (1924–2004) spent twenty years researching forced labor.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781784786311
ISBN-10: 1784786314
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Marchal, Jules
Übersetzung: Thom, Martin
Hersteller: Verso
Maße: 208 x 139 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Jules Marchal
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.01.2017
Gewicht: 0,338 kg
Artikel-ID: 103825701
Über den Autor
A former diplomat in the Belgian Congo, Jules Marchal (1924–2004) spent twenty years researching forced labor.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781784786311
ISBN-10: 1784786314
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Marchal, Jules
Übersetzung: Thom, Martin
Hersteller: Verso
Maße: 208 x 139 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Jules Marchal
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.01.2017
Gewicht: 0,338 kg
Artikel-ID: 103825701
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