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Title: Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts
Condition: New
Subtitle: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo
Author: Jules Marchal
Translator: Martin Thom
Contributor: Adam Hochschild (Introduction by), Martin Thom (Translated by)
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1784786314
EAN: 9781784786311
ISBN: 9781784786311
Publisher: Verso Books
Genre: History
Release Date: 31/01/2017
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 210mm
Item Length: 140mm
Item Width: 21mm
Item Weight: 339g
Release Year: 2017

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