Of all the Western imperialists and their harsh colonial governments, none was as terrifying as King Leopold II of Belgium, and none was as brutal as his African colony, the so-called Congo Free State. In The King Incorporated, Neal Ascherson recounts King Leopold's exploitation of the Congolese -- he enslaved, tortured, terrorized, and eventually killed an estimated 20 million -- and his efforts to conceal these atrocities from the rest of the world.
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A BELGIAN KING does not enter upon his reign by coronation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Congo State, Duke of Brabant, Berlin Act, King of the Belgians, Tippo Tib, The Times, Foreign Office, United States, Van Eetvelde, Carton de Wiart, Lake Tanganyika, Unpublished Letters, Fondation de la Couronne, Smet de Naeyer, East Africa, Prime Minister, Stanley Falls, Albert Thys, Belgian Ambassador, Cap Ferrat, Domaine de la Couronne, Emile Banning, William Mackinnon, House of Lords, Prince of Wales New!
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A BELGIAN KING does not enter upon his reign by coronation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Congo State, Duke of Brabant, Berlin Act, King of the Belgians, Tippo Tib, The Times, Foreign Office, United States, Van Eetvelde, Carton de Wiart, Lake Tanganyika, Unpublished Letters, Fondation de la Couronne, Smet de Naeyer, East Africa, Prime Minister, Stanley Falls, Albert Thys, Belgian Ambassador, Cap Ferrat, Domaine de la Couronne, Emile Banning, William Mackinnon, House of Lords, Prince of Wales New!
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- Red Rubber: Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo in the Year of Grace 1906 by E.D. Morel on 4 pages
- Britain and the Congo in the Nineteenth Century by Roger Anstey on page 96, page 201, and Back Matter
- The International Relations Of The Chinese Empire by Hosea Ballou Morse on page 233
- South of France: French Entree 10 (No. 10) by Patricia Fenn on page 215
- Games With Shadows by Neal Ascherson in Front Matter
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- Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals (Africana Thought) by Anthony Bogues in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Black Heretics, Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals (Africana Thought) by Anthony Bogues in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Fin de Siï¿1/2cle: A Reader in Cultural History, c. 1880-1900 by Sally Ledger in Back Matter
- Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence: British Writing of Africa 1855-1902 (Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture) by Laura Franey in Back Matter
- Belgium - Culture Smart!: a quick guide to customs & etiquette by Mandy Macdonald in Back Matter
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