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King Leopold's Ghost

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Adam Hochschild
Houghton Mifflin
1998-09-21
0
USD 26.00
Hardcover
9780395759240

圖書標籤: 曆史  非洲  殖民  殖民主義  非小說類  近代史  社會  歷史   


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King Leopold's Ghost pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024



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In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Adam Hochschild brings this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo--too long forgotten--onto the conscience of the West.

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著者簡介

Hochschild was born in New York City. As a college student, he spent a summer working on an anti-government newspaper in South Africa and subsequently worked briefly as a civil rights worker in Mississippi in 1964. Both were politically pivotal experiences about which he would later write in his book Finding the Trapdoor. He later was part of the movement against the Vietnam War, and, after several years as a daily newspaper reporter, worked as a writer and editor for the leftwing Ramparts magazine. In the mid-1970s, he was one of the co-founders of Mother Jones.

Hochschild's first book was a memoir, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son (1986), in which he described the difficult relationship he had with his father. His later books include The Mirror at Midnight: a South African Journey (1990; new edition, 2007), The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin (1994; new edition, 2003), Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels (1997), which collects his personal essays and reportage, and King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998; new edition, 2006), a history of the conquest and colonization of the Congo by Belgium's King Léopold II. His Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, published in 2005, is about the antislavery movement in the British Empire.

Hochschild has also written for The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, and The Nation. He was also a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Hochschild's books have been translated into twelve languages.

A frequent lecturer at Harvard's annual Nieman Narrative Journalism Conference and similar venues, Hochschild lives in San Francisco and teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is married to sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild.


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似乎所有的殖民地都被扭麯異化為誘惑其徵服者盡情釋放心中野蠻本能的女性形象,就連所謂的文明本身也是非道德的。

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很能補充[黑暗的心]

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是一部剛果殖民史,也是King Leopold、Henry Stanley、E.D. Morel等幾人的個人傳記。最後一章講到剛果建國之後依然被歐美“經濟殖民”,一下子提升瞭整本書的批判高度。在現在的學習工作workload裏讀一本雖然和major有關但非assigned reading的書實在奢侈,不過絕對值得

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如果剛果自由國沒有成為他的私人領地,真的就會逃離這種災難嗎?

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欲望無底洞

讀後感

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刚刚读完,谈下我的感受吧。 它不是简单的一本关于刚果被比利时殖民统治历史的书, 也不只是囊括了King Leopold II, Henry Stanley, E.D Morel等人生平的传记 作者恰到好处地以各个人物为出发点和线索,将他们的命运甚至是孜孜不倦的追求与刚果的命运联系在一起。 当你用心...  

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刚刚读完,谈下我的感受吧。 它不是简单的一本关于刚果被比利时殖民统治历史的书, 也不只是囊括了King Leopold II, Henry Stanley, E.D Morel等人生平的传记 作者恰到好处地以各个人物为出发点和线索,将他们的命运甚至是孜孜不倦的追求与刚果的命运联系在一起。 当你用心...  

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A book of the manipulative power of propaganda craftsmanship, the vileness of commonness and indifference, and the nakedness of personal greed. “Monsters exist,” wrote Primo Levi of his experience at Auschwitz. "But they are too few in number to be truly ...

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刚刚读完,谈下我的感受吧。 它不是简单的一本关于刚果被比利时殖民统治历史的书, 也不只是囊括了King Leopold II, Henry Stanley, E.D Morel等人生平的传记 作者恰到好处地以各个人物为出发点和线索,将他们的命运甚至是孜孜不倦的追求与刚果的命运联系在一起。 当你用心...  

評分

刚刚读完,谈下我的感受吧。 它不是简单的一本关于刚果被比利时殖民统治历史的书, 也不只是囊括了King Leopold II, Henry Stanley, E.D Morel等人生平的传记 作者恰到好处地以各个人物为出发点和线索,将他们的命运甚至是孜孜不倦的追求与刚果的命运联系在一起。 当你用心...  

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