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De geest van koning Leopold II
en de plundering van de CongoAdam Hochschild (New York, 1942) schreef voor The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, New York Review of Books, Granta, New York Times Magazine en vele andere kranten en tijdschriften. Hij schreef onder andere Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son, The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey en The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin. Met zijn verzameling Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels won hij de pen/Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award voor Essays. Met De geest van koning Leopold II en de plundering van de Congo behoorde hij tot een van de finalisten voor de National Book Critics Award. Zijn boeken zijn in vele talen vertaald.
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Gli spettri del Congo. La storia di un genocidio dimenticato
Sul finire del XIX secolo, mentre le grandi potenze europee si spartiscono il continente africano, re Leopoldo II del Belgio si impossessa di un vasto e inesplorato territorio lungo il fiume Congo. E mentre a livello internazionale si costruisce una reputazione di grande filantropo, dà in realtà inizio a una delle più brutali colonizzazioni della storia riducendo in schiavitù la popolazione locale, saccheggiandone le ricchezze e portando avanti un genocidio che costa la vita a oltre dieci milioni di persone. Gli spettri del Congo è il racconto di un uomo dalla crudeltà megalomane e mostruosa, ma è anche il ritratto commovente di quanti hanno avuto il coraggio di combatterlo. Porta infatti alla luce le gesta eroiche di missionari, viaggiatori, idealisti diventati testimoni del terribile olocausto: da Edmund Morel, il giovane dipendente di una compagnia di navigazione diventato guida del movimento internazionale di protesta, a George Williams e William Sheppard, i due coraggiosi afroamericani che a rischio di enormi pericoli hanno mostrato al mondo le prove di quanto stava succedendo in quella regione dell'Africa. Con grande forza Adam Hochschild pone nuovamente sotto gli sguardi e le coscienze dell'Occidente una tragedia troppo a lungo dimenticata, che scava alle origini del razzismo e del colonialismo di oggi.
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Bury the Chains
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Unquiet Ghost
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Verzet en eendracht
De Grote Oorlog 1914-1918Van de Eerste Wereldoorlog zijn de begraafplaatsen en loopgraven in Noord-Frankrijk en België de trieste, stille getuigen. In Verzet en eendracht brengt Adam Hochschild de persoonlijke verhalen achter deze gruwelijke oorlog tot leven. Hij portretteert de oorlogshelden, maar vertelt ook de lang genegeerde drama’s van de tegenstanders, onder wie een toekomstige Nobelprijswinnaar en een redacteur die een krant op wc-papier uitgaf voor zijn medegevangenen die vanwege hun verzet achter de tralies zaten. Hochschild geeft een veelzijdig beeld van een oorlog die aan alle oorlogen een einde had moeten maken. Door de beschrijvingen van de levens van de historische personen leest Verzet en eendracht als een roman.
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El fantasma del rey Leopoldo : una historia de codicia, terror y heroísmo en el África colonial
En el tránsito del siglo xix al xx, cuando las potencias europeas se repartían África, el rey Leopoldo II de Bélgica llevó a cabo un brutal saqueo del territorio que rodeaba el río Congo. Aunque acabó reduciendo en diez millones de personas la población de la zona, consiguió cultivar con astucia su fama de persona muy humanitaria. El fantasma del rey Leopoldo, relato de una riqueza mucho mayor de lo que cualquier novelista podría inventar, es la descripción horripilante de un megalomaníaco de proporciones monstruosas. Y es también el retrato conmovedor de quienes desafiaron a Leopoldo: los dirigentes rebeldes africanos que lucharon a la desesperada y un puñado de valientes misioneros, viajeros y jóvenes idealistas que fueron a África en busca de trabajo o aventura pero acabaron siendo inesperadamente testigos de un holocausto y participantes en el primer movimiento del siglo xx a favor de los derechos humanos.
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Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays
In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic, from a stroll through construction sites with an ecologically pioneering architect in India to a day on the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela. Hochschild also talks about the writers he loves, from Mark Twain to John McPhee, and explores such far-reaching topics as why so much history is badly written, what bookshelves tell us about their owners, and his front-row seat for the shocking revelation in the 1960s that the CIA had been secretly controlling dozens of supposedly independent organizations.
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King Leopold's Ghost
"An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." - Christian Science Monitor "As Hochschild's brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread." - Los Angeles Times Book Review In the late nineteenth century, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried out a brutal plundering of the territory surrounding the Congo River. Ultimately slashing the area's population by ten million, he still managed to shrewdly cultivate his reputation as a great humanitarian. A tale far richer than any novelist could invent, King Leopold's Ghost is the horrifying account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who defied Leopold: African rebel leaders who fought against hopeless odds and a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure but unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust and participants in the twentieth century's first great human rights movement. A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book
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Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays
In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun show to a Finnish prison, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic, from a stroll through construction sites with an ecologically pioneering architect in India to a day on the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela. Hochschild also talks about the writers he loves, from Mark Twain to John McPhee, and explores such far-reaching topics as why so much history is badly written, what bookshelves tell us about their owners, and his front-row seat for the shocking revelation in the 1960s that the CIA had been secretly controlling dozens of supposedly independent organizations. With the skills of a journalist, the knowledge of a historian, and the heart of an activist, Hochschild shares the stories of people who took a stand against despotism, spoke out against unjust wars and government surveillance, and dared to dream of a better and more just world.
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Spain in Our Hearts
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. A sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Hemingway and George Orwell: A tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed.For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world, as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa's photographs. But Adam Hochschild has discovered some less familiar yet far more compelling characters who reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war: a fiery nineteen-year-old Kentucky woman who went to wartime Spain on her honeymoon, a Swarthmore College senior who was the first American casualty in the battle for Madrid, a pair of fiercely partisan, rivalrous New York Times reporters who covered the war from opposite sides, and a swashbuckling Texas oilman with Nazi sympathies who sold Franco almost all his oil?at reduced prices, and on credit. It was in many ways the opening battle of World War II, and we still have much to learn from it. Spain in Our Hearts is Adam Hochschild at his very best. "With all due respect to Orwell, Spain in Our Hearts should supplant Homage to Catalonia as the best introduction to the conflict written in English. A humane and moving book."?New Republic"Excellent and involving . . . What makes [Hochschild's] book so intimate and moving is its human scale."?Dwight Garner, New York Times
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Para acabar con todas las guerras : una historia de lealtad y rebelión, 1914-1918
Para muchos de los que la impulsaron, como el presidente estadounidense Woodrow Wilson, la Primera Guerra Mundial era la guerra que tenía que acabar con todas las guerras, la confrontación armada que debía evitar que una carnicería semejante, con millones de muertos en todo el mundo, desproporcionada incluso un siglo después de su estallido, volviera a repetirse.Está claro que no fue así. Y solo unos pocos supieron verlo entonces. De todos ellos habla Adam Hochschild en este libro, en el que los que lucharon en la guerra dejan sitio a los que se opusieron a ella, muchos de los cuales terminaron en la cárcel por defender sus ideas. Entre ellos, el futuro ganador de un Premio Nobel de Literatura Bertrand Russell y un exdirector de diario que publicó para sus compañeros de prisión un periódico en papel higiénico.Libro formidable y documentado, Para acabar con todas las guerras no es solo una poderosa evocación del terror de la Primera Guerra Mundial, sino un homenaje a los que sufrieron sus consecuencias y a los que pagaron un precio muy alto por rebelarse contra e
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Schatten über dem Kongo
Geiselnahme, Vergewaltigung, Mißhandlung und Mord waren die Instrumente, die Leopolds Statthalter einsetzten, um den kongolesischen Ureinwohnern die geforderten Quoten an Kautschuk und Elfenbein abzupressen. Wer Widerstand leistete, wurde umgebracht oder verstümmelt. Als die Kampagnen der Menschenrechtsbewegung um Edmund Morel den König 1908 zur Aufgabe seiner Kolonie gezwungen hatten, war die Bevölkerungszahl des Kongo um etwa zehn Millionen Menschen gesunken.Adam Hochschild geht den Spuren dieser Schreckensherrschaft nach. Er erzählt von den Abenteurern, die das riesige und nahezu undurchdringliche Gebiet um den Kongo-Strom erforschten, von politischen Ränkespielen und von der Entschlossenheit, mit der Männer wie Morel ohne Rücksicht auf ihre berufliche Karriere und allen Repressalien zum Trotz den Kampf gegen Leopolds Terrorsystem aufnahmen.
€ 32,00