King Leopold's ghost : a story of greed, terror, and heroism in Colonial Africa /

In the late 1890s Edmund Morel, a shipping company official working in Antwerp, noticed something suspicious. It was enough to set him on an investigation in which he almost single-handedly made the Congo's slave-labour regime and the lives it took into a cause which would unite the world.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hochschild, Adam
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1999, c1998.
Edición:1st Mariner books ed.
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300 |a 366 p., [16] p. de láms. :  |b il., mapas, retrs. ;  |c 23 cm. 
500 |a "A Mariner book." 
504 |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. 
505 0 |a Prologue: "The traders area kidnapping our people" -- Part I: Walking into fire. "I shall not give up the chase" ; The fox crosses the stream ; The magnificent cake ; "The treaties must grant us everything" ; From Florida to Berlin ; Under the Yacht Club flag ; The first heretic ; Where there aren't no Ten Commandments ; Meeting Mr. Kurtz ; The wood that weeps ; A secret society of murderers -- Part II: A King at bay. David and Goliath ; Breaking into the thieves' kitchen ; To flood his deeds with day ; A reckoning ; "Journalists won't give you recipes" ; No man is a stranger ; Victory? ; The Great Forgetting -- Looking back : a personal afterword. 
520 |a In the late 1890s Edmund Morel, a shipping company official working in Antwerp, noticed something suspicious. It was enough to set him on an investigation in which he almost single-handedly made the Congo's slave-labour regime and the lives it took into a cause which would unite the world. 
651 0 |a Congo (Democratic Republic)  |x Politics and government  |y 1885-1908. 
651 0 |a Congo (Democratic Republic)  |x Race relations  |x History  |y 19th century. 
651 0 |a Congo (Democratic Republic)  |x Race relations  |x History  |y 20th century. 
651 7 |a Congo (República Democrática)  |x Política y gobierno  |y 1885-1908.  |2 UDESA 
651 7 |a Congo (República Democrática)  |x Relaciones raciales  |x Historia  |y Siglo XIX.  |2 UDESA 
651 7 |a Congo (República Democrática)  |x Relaciones raciales  |x Historia  |y Siglo XX.  |2 UDESA 
650 0 |a Forced labor  |z Congo (Democratic Republic)  |x History  |y 19th century. 
650 0 |a Forced labor  |z Congo (Democratic Republic)  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Indigenous peoples  |z Congo (Democratic Republic)  |x History  |y 19th century. 
650 0 |a Indigenous peoples  |z Congo (Democratic Republic)  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 0 |a Human rights movements  |x History  |y 19th century. 
650 0 |a Human rights movements  |x History  |y 20th century. 
650 7 |a Trabajos forzados  |z Congo (República Democrática)  |x Historia  |y Siglo XIX.  |2 UDESA 
650 7 |a Trabajos forzados  |z Congo (República Democrática)  |x Historia  |y Siglo XX.  |2 UDESA 
650 7 |a Pueblos originarios  |z Congo (República Democrática)  |x Historia  |y Siglo XIX.  |2 UDESA 
650 7 |a Pueblos originarios  |z Congo (República Democrática)  |x Historia  |y Siglo XX.  |2 UDESA 
650 7 |a Movimientos de derechos humanos  |x Historia  |y Siglo XIX.  |2 UDESA 
650 7 |a Movimientos de derechos humanos  |x Historia  |y Siglo XX.  |2 UDESA 
600 0 0 |a Léopold  |b II,  |c King of the Belgians,  |d 1835-1909. 
600 1 0 |a Morel, E. D.  |q (Edmund Dene),  |d 1873-1924. 
600 0 7 |a Leopoldo  |b II,  |c Rey de Bélgica,  |d 1835-1909.  |2 UDESA 
600 1 7 |a Morel, E. D.  |q (Edmund Dene),  |d 1873-1924.  |2 UDESA