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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
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2019/03/06
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In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian.
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold's Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.
作者介紹
Adam Hochschild
Adam Hochschild (pronunciation: ''Hoch'' as in ""spoke""; ''schild'' as in ""build"") published his first book, ""Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son,"" in 1986. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it ""an extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love . . . firmly grounded in the specifics of a particular time and place, conjuring them up with Proustian detail and affection."" It was followed by ""The Mirror at Midnight: A Journey to the Heart of South Africa,"" and ""The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin."" His 1997 collection, ""Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels,"" won the Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay from American PEN. ""King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa"" was a finalist in the United States for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award, and won the Duff Cooper Prize in England. Five of his books have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. His ""Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery"" was a finalist in the U.S. for the 2005 National Book Award in Nonfiction and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History.
Hochschild's ""To End All Wars: A Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War"" was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction and won the 2012 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction. Both it and his latest book, the 2016 ""Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939,"" were New York Times bestsellers.
The American Historical Association gave Hochschild its 2008 Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service, a prize given each year to someone outside the academy who has made a significant contribution to the study of history.
""Throughout his writings over the last decades,"" the Association's citation said, ""Adam Hochschild has focused on topics of important moral and political urgency, with a special emphasis on social and political injustices and those who confronted and struggled against them, as in the case of Britain's 18th-century abolitionists in 'Bury the Chains'; 'The Mirror at Midnight', a study of the struggle between the Boers and Zulus for control over South Africa in the 19th-century Battle of Blood River and its contentious commemoration by rival groups 150 years later; the complex confrontation of Russians with the ghost of Stalinist past in 'The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin'; and the cruelties enacted during the course of Western colonial expansion and domination, notably in his widely acclaimed 'King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa', among his many other publications. All his books combine dramatic narratives and meticulous research. . . .
"" 'King Leopold's Ghost' had an extraordinary impact, attracting readers the world over, altering the teaching and writing of history and affecting politics and culture at national and international levels. Published in English and translated into 11 additional languages, the book has been incorporated into secondary school curricula and appears as a key text in the historiography of colonial Africa for college and graduate students. But it is within Belgium that Hochschild's work has had the most dramatic impact, demonstrating the active and transformative power of history. The publication of 'King Leopold's Ghost' forced Belgians to come to terms for the first time with their long buried colonial past and generated intense public debate that so troubled Belgian officials that they reportedly instructed diplomats on how to deflect embarrassing questions that the book raised about the past. The book offered welcome support for others in Belgium who sought acknowledgment and a
Adam Hochschild (pronunciation: ''Hoch'' as in ""spoke""; ''schild'' as in ""build"") published his first book, ""Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son,"" in 1986. Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times called it ""an extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love . . . firmly grounded in the specifics of a particular time and place, conjuring them up with Proustian detail and affection."" It was followed by ""The Mirror at Midnight: A Journey to the Heart of South Africa,"" and ""The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin."" His 1997 collection, ""Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels,"" won the Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award for the Art of the Essay from American PEN. ""King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa"" was a finalist in the United States for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award, and won the Duff Cooper Prize in England. Five of his books have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review. His ""Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery"" was a finalist in the U.S. for the 2005 National Book Award in Nonfiction and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History.
Hochschild's ""To End All Wars: A Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War"" was a finalist for the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction and won the 2012 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonfiction. Both it and his latest book, the 2016 ""Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939,"" were New York Times bestsellers.
The American Historical Association gave Hochschild its 2008 Theodore Roosevelt-Woodrow Wilson Award for Public Service, a prize given each year to someone outside the academy who has made a significant contribution to the study of history.
""Throughout his writings over the last decades,"" the Association's citation said, ""Adam Hochschild has focused on topics of important moral and political urgency, with a special emphasis on social and political injustices and those who confronted and struggled against them, as in the case of Britain's 18th-century abolitionists in 'Bury the Chains'; 'The Mirror at Midnight', a study of the struggle between the Boers and Zulus for control over South Africa in the 19th-century Battle of Blood River and its contentious commemoration by rival groups 150 years later; the complex confrontation of Russians with the ghost of Stalinist past in 'The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin'; and the cruelties enacted during the course of Western colonial expansion and domination, notably in his widely acclaimed 'King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa', among his many other publications. All his books combine dramatic narratives and meticulous research. . . .
"" 'King Leopold's Ghost' had an extraordinary impact, attracting readers the world over, altering the teaching and writing of history and affecting politics and culture at national and international levels. Published in English and translated into 11 additional languages, the book has been incorporated into secondary school curricula and appears as a key text in the historiography of colonial Africa for college and graduate students. But it is within Belgium that Hochschild's work has had the most dramatic impact, demonstrating the active and transformative power of history. The publication of 'King Leopold's Ghost' forced Belgians to come to terms for the first time with their long buried colonial past and generated intense public debate that so troubled Belgian officials that they reportedly instructed diplomats on how to deflect embarrassing questions that the book raised about the past. The book offered welcome support for others in Belgium who sought acknowledgment and a
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誠品貨碼 / 2681781627006
ISBN13 / 9781509882205
ISBN10 / 1509882200
EAN貨碼 / 9781509882205
頁數 / 400
注音版 / 否
裝訂 / P:平裝
語言 / 3:英文
尺寸 / 13X19.6X2.8CM
級別 / N:無
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