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Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo | 
 enlarge | Author: Jules Marchal
Creator: Adam Hochschild
Publisher: Verso
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Sales Rank: 796943
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 1844672395
Dewey Decimal Number: 967.51024
EAN: 9781844672394
ASIN: 1844672395
Publication Date: June 9, 2008
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Product Description
The definitive account of early twentieth-century exploitation in the world's only privately owned colony.
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 more deaths than the Nazi holocaust. In this definitive, meticulously researched history, Jules Marchal exposes the nature of forced labor under Lord Leverhulme's rule and the appalling conditions imposed upon the inhabitants 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.
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