亚当•霍赫希尔德(Adam Hochschild)出生于1942年,美国作家、记者和演讲家。他于1963年毕业于哈佛大学历史和文学系。迄今他出版了很多脍炙人口的作品,包括《回家路上:一对父子的回忆录》(Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Fat her and Son)、《特立独行的鬼魂:俄国人记忆中的斯大林》(The Unique Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin)。他的《利奥波德国王的鬼魂》一书入围美国国家图书评论奖终选名单。
【译者简介】
扈喜林,自由译者,内蒙古人,毕业于对外经济贸易大学,主要从事品牌管理、创新研究、心理学、小说等领域的翻译工作,翻译出版了《绿色黄金》等近30部作品。
发表于2024-12-22
King Leopold's Ghost 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
19世纪后期和20世纪初期,在非洲中西部的刚果上演了一幕惨绝人寰的人间悲剧。戏剧的总导演是欧洲小国比利时国王利奥波德二世,前期的主要演员是英国人亨利·莫顿·斯坦利,后期是参与其中的各色人物。利奥波德一直在幕后策划,斯坦利负责殖民草创初期的前台执行以及后来始终不...
评分读这样的历史,实在是有种很难描述的不舒服。不是书不好,而是太好了。 本书所描绘的历史事实不过是号称“文明开化”的西方人犯下的另一桩殖民主义暴行而已。正如作者所言,在英法德等其它国家的非洲殖民地同样有类似的罪行曾经发生,规模度和残忍度恐怕相比之下并不逊色,只是...
评分 评分 评分关于比利时,孤陋寡闻如我,只知道两个人,其中一个人还是假的,那就是大侦探小说家克里斯蒂笔下的波洛(新上映的电影《东方快车谋杀案》中的新波洛将旧形象颠覆得体无完肤)。如果你提醒我,那是一个假人,那就对了。剩下一个,倒是如假包换的比利时人,是个国王,叫利奥波德...
图书标签: 历史 现代史 刚果 非洲 殖民主义 资本主义 英文原版 帝国主义
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.
可读性很强,写得像小说。讲的19世纪末比利时国王Leopold II在刚果的殖民史和大屠杀,被遗忘的暴行,康拉德“黑暗的心”的原型。
评分"And yet the world we live in—its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence—is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history."
评分"And yet the world we live in—its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence—is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history."
评分感觉给书打分都不会太苛刻,况且这本的确不错。读完Heart of Darkness过来读它,效果非常好。
评分感觉给书打分都不会太苛刻,况且这本的确不错。读完Heart of Darkness过来读它,效果非常好。
King Leopold's Ghost 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书