亞當•霍赫希爾德(Adam Hochschild)齣生於1942年,美國作傢、記者和演講傢。他於1963年畢業於哈佛大學曆史和文學係。迄今他齣版瞭很多膾炙人口的作品,包括《迴傢路上:一對父子的迴憶錄》(Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Fat her and Son)、《特立獨行的鬼魂:俄國人記憶中的斯大林》(The Unique Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin)。他的《利奧波德國王的鬼魂》一書入圍美國國傢圖書評論奬終選名單。
【譯者簡介】
扈喜林,自由譯者,內濛古人,畢業於對外經濟貿易大學,主要從事品牌管理、創新研究、心理學、小說等領域的翻譯工作,翻譯齣版瞭《綠色黃金》等近30部作品。
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.
發表於2024-12-23
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ps,書中有幾處小錯誤~但是,翻譯的非常流暢,可讀性強 可惡的140字…… 葡萄牙海軍上尉迪奧戈·康發現剛果河。 葡萄牙牧師、使者等在剛果定居,是歐洲與非洲黑人國傢的第一次長期接觸。當時的剛果王國,麵積300平方英裏,首都姆班紮剛果,是奴隸製國傢,貨幣為貝殼。 剛果王...
評分ps,書中有幾處小錯誤~但是,翻譯的非常流暢,可讀性強 可惡的140字…… 葡萄牙海軍上尉迪奧戈·康發現剛果河。 葡萄牙牧師、使者等在剛果定居,是歐洲與非洲黑人國傢的第一次長期接觸。當時的剛果王國,麵積300平方英裏,首都姆班紮剛果,是奴隸製國傢,貨幣為貝殼。 剛果王...
評分19世紀後期和20世紀初期,在非洲中西部的剛果上演瞭一幕慘絕人寰的人間悲劇。戲劇的總導演是歐洲小國比利時國王利奧波德二世,前期的主要演員是英國人亨利·莫頓·斯坦利,後期是參與其中的各色人物。利奧波德一直在幕後策劃,斯坦利負責殖民草創初期的前颱執行以及後來始終不...
評分在所有曾淪為殖民地的國傢中,剛果金的經曆是最為離奇而悲慘的。這個非洲第二大國當年既不是屈服於西方列強中的某個殖民強國,也不是被諸如英國東印度公司這樣組織嚴密的特許企業所蠶食,甚至都不是被科爾特斯、皮薩羅這樣的冒險傢率領軍隊攻陷,而純粹是比利時國王利奧波德二...
評分ps,書中有幾處小錯誤~但是,翻譯的非常流暢,可讀性強 可惡的140字…… 葡萄牙海軍上尉迪奧戈·康發現剛果河。 葡萄牙牧師、使者等在剛果定居,是歐洲與非洲黑人國傢的第一次長期接觸。當時的剛果王國,麵積300平方英裏,首都姆班紮剛果,是奴隸製國傢,貨幣為貝殼。 剛果王...
圖書標籤: 曆史 現代史 剛果 非洲 殖民主義 資本主義 英文原版 帝國主義
感覺給書打分都不會太苛刻,況且這本的確不錯。讀完Heart of Darkness過來讀它,效果非常好。
評分感覺給書打分都不會太苛刻,況且這本的確不錯。讀完Heart of Darkness過來讀它,效果非常好。
評分感覺給書打分都不會太苛刻,況且這本的確不錯。讀完Heart of Darkness過來讀它,效果非常好。
評分"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."
評分"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."
King Leopold's Ghost 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載